The Cairo Criminal Court has issued a detailed verdict sentencing the defendant, ‘Hussein A.’, to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment for attacking and attempting to kidnap and sexually assault a woman in Cairo.
Security services in Cairo back in May arrested an Uber driver for harassing and injuring a woman in the Fifth Settlement area during a ride.
The security services examined a post on Instagram by the sister of the victim, saying that the woman had been harassed and threatened with a knife.
The woman’s sister, Sally Awad, wrote on Instagram that her 40-year-old sister was harassed by an Uber driver during a ride on Saturday from the Fifth Settlement area to Sheikh Zayed area.
Awad added that during the ride “The driver stopped behind the Air Defense Stadium, under the pretext that he was getting a bottle of water from the car trunk.”
Quoting her sister, she explained that: “When he stopped the car, I started to get nervous because of his behavior because all the way as he was looking at me in a terrifying way. He got out of the car to get a bottle of water from the trunk. He opened the car door and was holding a knife his hand. He told me to get out, and when I resisted him, I was seriously injured in my right hand.”
The suspect, Hussein, denied trying to assault the victim, Nabila Awad, with a knife to force her to take off her clothes and touch her body, as she said in the police report.
He claimed that the incident was caused by a dispute over the value of the ride between him and Awad, after she refused to receive the money by Visa card.
The incident dates back to May 11, and the police began their investigation after the Nasr City Police Department received a report from the victim in which she reported that the driver tried to rape her, and was holding a knife, but she resisted him, causing an injury to her right hand.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
