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Court jails nine men for sexual assaults

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28329064

A court in Egypt has sentenced nine men to prison after finding them guilty of sexual assault and harassment.

Several women were attacked by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square last month during celebrations after the election of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.

Afterwards, Mr Sisi ordered officials to enforce a new law making sexual assault a crime for the first time.

Women's rights groups have in the past accused the Egyptian authorities of failing to tackle the issue.

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/106389.aspx

Egypt on Wednesday sentenced nine men to jail terms varying from life imprisonment to 20 years for sexually assaulting women near Cairo's Tahrir Square last month, judicial sources have said.

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And about time too.
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