A Giza court has sentenced two Egyptian men to two years in prison for bullying and assaulting a 14-year-old Sudanese boy. Nael Mohamed was targeted in June 2020 by the two Egyptians in a racially-motivated attack while walking in Cairo. The two men captured themselves on video, which was later uploaded to TikTok, throwing stones at the Sudanese boy and mocking him for his skin colour and ethnicity. “I’m tired, I want to die,” the 14-year-old reportedly said after the incident, according to local media outlets. The misdemeanour court in Giza’s Imbaba district sentenced the two men to two years imprisonment and fined each defendant EGP 100,000 ($USD 6,250 as at the time of publication). The two men were charged and convicted for discrimination that disturbed the public peace, insulting the boy, violating the boy’s privacy by posting a video of the racially-motivated attack online and for stealing the boy’s personal belongings. The court’s sentence, which can still be appealed, comes after Egypt’s Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved draft amendments outlining various degrees of penalty and jail terms to criminalise bullying for the first time in Egypt’s history. In addition…
Egyptian Racists Sentenced to Two Years Imprisonment for Bullying 14-Year-Old Sudanese Boy
July 27, 2020
