CAIRO — The
Egyptian prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that a young man accused of killing a
student because she refused his advances has been detained, after an outcry on
social media.
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The alleged killer
has been “placed in preventive detention for four days as part of an investigation
into the premeditated murder of student Nayera (Ashraf) front of her faculty,”
it said in a statement.
A video widely
shared on social media on Monday appears to show the victim being stabbed by a
young man, who is subsequently apprehended by passers-by.
The accused, who
the authorities did not name, comes from Mansoura, north of
Cairo. He has
“confessed to killing the victim because she refused to have a relationship
with him”, the prosecutor’s office added.
Several witnesses,
including the victim’s father, said the young woman had already reported her
fear of attack to the authorities.
On social media
networks, some urged that similar cases “should never happen again”.
“Society must
together do better for its children,” read one post.
Many women in
Egypt say they are regularly exposed to violence and feel the law fails to protect or
even harms them, in a country where the spread of a rigorous version of Islam
since the 1970s and conservative traditions have hampered women’s rights.
In early 2021, the
government proposed — without success — a draft bill aimed at restricting the
rights of nearly 50 million
Egyptian women by, for example, allowing their
father or their brothers to annul their marriage.
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