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Female Tiktok influencers sentenced to 10 and 6 years in prison

20 Jun 2021

20 June 2021: TikTok influencers Haneen Hossam and Mowada al-Adham were sentenced to ten and six years in prison respectively, on the charge of human trafficking by Cairo Criminal Court. This is part of a wider trend of using morality and family values to crack down on women’s rights.

See Mada Masr (June 2021) and EuroMed Rights on Twitter (June 2021) .

Counter-response

Online campaign with the hashtag #Free_TikTok_Girls