The judiciary says its word in “Basant’s suicide”: 5 years imprisonment for the minor boy
An Egyptian court sentenced a minor to 5 years in prison after convicting him of violating the show and blackmailing a girl, which led to her suicide, in an incident that sparked widespread anger in Egypt a few months ago.
Basant Khaled, a seventeen-year-old student, committed suicide on December 23 by swallowing a toxic tablet after posting scandalous photos attributed to her on the Internet.
The 16-year-old minor was tried before the Child Court in Tanta, but 5 other defendants in the same case are still being tried before a criminal court, with a verdict issued against them on May 10.
The boy was sentenced to two years in prison for indecent assault, and the court also sentenced him to another 3 years in prison after convicting him of publishing photographs and video clips "without the victim's consent."
The boy was arrested in January after the outcry sparked by the suicide of the girl, Basant Khaled, after posting pictures and videos that her family members, colleagues and teachers had seen on the Internet.
After the girl committed suicide, an official in the Public Prosecution said that she had been blackmailed for refusing to have sexual relations with a group of young men.
After her suicide, the girl's father denied that the pictures published on the Internet were of his daughter, stressing that the picture of his daughter had been installed on the body of another person.
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