Lebanese Woman Jailed in Egypt after Making Harassment Claim
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A Lebanese woman was jailed for eight years in Egypt on Saturday for "harming" its people, a judicial source said, after she claimed in a video to have been sexually assaulted.
Tourist Mona al-Mazbouh was arrested in late May at Cairo airport as she was preparing to leave Egypt.
Mazbouh had published a video on Facebook, which was widely shared, saying that she had been the victim of sexual harassment in the streets and accusing Egyptians of thievery and scams.
The allegations drew a strong reaction online, with some Egyptians calling for Mazbouh's arrest and lodging a complaint against her.
Despite releasing a second video insisting she had not meant to insult the country as a whole, Mazbouh was found guilty by a Cairo court of "harming the Egyptian people".
Initially she was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but that was amended within hours to eight years, the judicial source said.
A lawyer for Mazbouh lodged an appeal against the verdict and a hearing will be held on July 29, an official in the prosecutor's office said.
08 July 2018, 17:52
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Today in Qasr el Shaab President Bashar al-Assad presented SSNP propaganda official, known to all by his alias as blablablablabla, the medal of loyalty and subservience for services rendered to the glorious Syrian nation including his neverending quest to present all crimes committed by Syrian nationals loyal to the regime in the Syrian province of Lebanon as Daesh and al Qaeda types. This is the same class of medal previously presented to loyal Syrian subjects Michel Samaha and Habib Chartouni. The festivities will conclude with a Baraze2 buffet and champagne hosted by first lady Asma al-Assad at the grand ball room #2 of Qasr el Shaab in honor of comrade blablablablabla.
08 July 2018, 20:24
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In a related story SSNP information officer comrade blablablablabla presented fellow SSNP member, long time knife enthusiast and hero of the 1976 liberation of Damour bigQAWMIjohn with the Souriyllah Ya Habib Chartouni commemorative plaque of valor, for having his back when performing a "Patriotic" duty. For example when comrade blablablablabla posts a news item about Syrians committing crimes in the Syrian province of Lebanon, on an unrelated story about a "Lebanese" woman unfairly jailed in Egypt, to divert the attention from the fact that these Syrians are regime supporters reviving pre-2005 Syrian mukhabarat acts, comerade bigQAWMIjohn was ready to back him up, loyalty in very importanr to members of SSNP.
NB(n): Comrade blablablablabla have asked us to inform anyone interested in buying the fresh dog meat to get in touch with him or with the following Facebook page, thank you.
https://www.facebook.com/Tayyarvivid
08 July 2018, 19:42
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@bigjahsh
what facts did your blablabla present relevant to the article? He is a shia troll just like you paid to post propaganda based on his sectarian hatred.
