On Monday, July 23, a Cairo court sentenced Haneen Hossam, Mawada Eladhm, and three men totwo years in prison and an EGP 300,000 fine for ‘violating family values and principles’. Hossam and Eladhm faced charges of assaulting ‘family principles and values’ and creating and managing special online accounts. The charges are in accordance to the referral order in case No. 1047 of 2020 Financial Misdemeanours, as stipulated in Articles 22, 25 and 27 of Law No. 175 of 2018, the “Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes” law, reports Shorouk News. The court prohibited press coverage and most of the defendants’ families from attending the hearing due to COVID-19 related precautionary measures. Eladhm and Hossam are popular personalities on the social media video-making app TikTok, with 3.1 and 1.2 million followers respectively. Hossam, a Cairo university student, was arrested on 21 April for ‘inciting debauchery and human trafficking’ after posting a TikTok video to promote her platform on video-sharing social media network Likee, which offers users monetary compensation in exchange for convincing others to sign up to the app. She remained in jail after a Cairo court accepted an appeal by prosecutors…
Two TikTok Influencers Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Violating Family Principles
July 27, 2020
