Egypt’s Public Prosecution announced on Wednesday evening that the Prosecutor-General has ordered an investigation into the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old woman at the Fairmont Nile City hotel. In a brief statement, the Public Prosecution said that it had received a file from the National Council for Women accompanied by a complaint from a young woman regarding sexual abuse in 2014 inside the Fairmont Nile City hotel. The file also consisted a number of testimonies about the alleged crime, said the statement by the Public Prosecution. “The Prosecutor General has ordered a judicial examination of the submitted papers and an investigation into the incident, and the Public Prosecution will announce the results of the investigations at a time it deems appropriate, in order to preserve the sanctity of the investigations and their conduct”. The announcement by the Public Prosecution comes a day after Egyptian Streets reported that multiple women had filed legal complaints in relation to the alleged gang rape at the Fairmont Nile City hotel and other related sexual crimes allegedly carried out by a number of the same perpetrators as those involved in the Fairmont Nile City…
Egypt’s Prosecutor-General Launches Investigation into Fairmont Gang Rape
August 5, 2020
