Video - Egypt: Female student in Cairo assaulted for wearing 'wrong' outfit.(
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A student at Cairo University has been the victim of sexual assault after she was attacked by dozens of fellow students from its law faculty.
The reason: she was wearing black pants and a pink sweater on campus. An outfit that was later labeled as 'wrong'. Rector of the university
The woman was surrounded by a group of male students who verbally and physically attacked her. They tried to pull her clothes off, according to a statement from the organization 'I saw harassment "(" I witnessed sexual assault),
The victim ran to the bathroom and hid there until security guards came to take her and escorted her from the campus. The head of the University of Cairo, Gaber Nassar, told RECEIVE he know that the girl was wearing a long garment earlier in the day about her outfit and it took off later, "which led to the incident, reports news Ahramonline.
A female student at Cairo University was sexually attacked by tens of her colleagues from the law faculty for wearing black trousers and a pink sweater on campus, an outfit that the university's head has referred to as a "mistake."
A video screened during Nassar's ONTV interview shows the woman wearing black trousers and a pink top while she is being led off campus by security.
"The girl's mistake doesn't justify [the male students'] behaviour," said Nassar, adding that the university does not allow students to wear "unusual or inappropriate" outfits on campus.
Nassar said that Monday was the first time such an incident had occurred at the university.
He added that the harassers had been monitored by security cameras and would be investigated.
Both the male students and the woman will be punished and possibly expelled for breaking the university's rules, he said.
Fathi Fareed, spokesman for the "I Witnessed Harassment" campaign, told ONTV in a separate interview that he had been shocked by Nassar's comments and dismissed his claims that the student had been wearing a long gown over an allegedly inappropriate outfit.
"This morning the university had denied the incident, until the video went viral," Fareed said. "This is a social disaster of sexual violence that the state needs to confront."
Fareed also refuted Nassar's claim that the incident was the first of its kind on the university's campus.
His group has received tens of complaints from female students concerning sexual harassment from both students and faculty members, Fareed said.
Sexual harassment has long been a growing problem in Egypt.
A sexual harassment study last year which interviewed hundreds of women in seven of Egypt's 27 governorates showed that more than 99 percent of the women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, ranging from minor incidents to rape, according to an April 2013 study by the United Nations, Egypt's Demographic Centre and the National Planning Institute.
