Significantly, the Egyptian authorities have recently been active in arresting teenagers and women on the pretext of "spreading vice" through social media platforms, especially "Tik Tok".
The phenomenon of "tik-tuk girls" who publish exciting or sarcastic short clips has witnessed widespread local rejection and has sparked great controversy, in conjunction with criticisms of the authority to disregard human rights violations, and accuse them of selectivity in applying standards of morality and virtue.
About two weeks ago, the family of the arrested political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was attacked by women, in full view of security men - according to what the family said - in front of Tora prison (south of Cairo), before the security forces arrested his activist sister Sana Saif, on charges of spreading rumors Corona virus outbreaks in prisons.
The incident of the assault on the Abdel Fattah family, and other human rights violations, some of which had deadly results in prisons and detention facilities, were not matched by a move by the public prosecutor, but an increase in the indifference to the human rights issue, while the public prosecutor actively enacted ethical statements about Tik Tok girls And others like him, according to observers.
# Egypt: The Egyptian security forces arrested the human rights activist Sana Abdel-Fattah, the sister of the activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, in front of the Egyptian Attorney General's office hours ago. A number of security forces took her in a minibus while she was planning to file a complaint about the attack that she and her family had suffered yesterday (1-2) pic.twitter.com/jUeJzxAvQ1
Amnesty International (@AmnestyAR) June 23, 2020
The Egyptian authorities have not allowed the detained journalist arbitrarily # Sulafa_Majdi to communicate with her family for more than four months while others in Qanatir prison are allowed to exchange messages with their families. Amnesty International fears that she is being held incommunicado as a disciplinary measure (1/2) https://t.co/zDUTVG4FyV pic.twitter.com/FdG90u67EZ
Amnesty International (@AmnestyAR) July 8, 2020
Extended campaign
Over the past three months, accusations against content makers on the application of Tik Tok have varied between "attacking the principles and values of society, abusing public modesty and spreading vice", while prosecutors charged some of them with "practicing prostitution."
On Monday, security forces arrested a girl named Hadeer al-Hadi, after she appeared in a video clip, and she was advertising herself and showing pornographic clips inciting immorality, immorality and prostitution, according to local media.
With her arrest, Al-Hadi joins Mawaddah Al-Adham, Hanin Hosam, Manar Sami, Rinad Imad, Sheri Hanem and her daughter Zumurda, as well as the dancer Sama Al-Masry and others who are being investigated in the accusations against them of spreading immorality and debauchery.
The list also includes the girl, Menna Abdel Aziz, who has issued a decision to deposit a battered woman in a substitute for pretrial detention, and to investigate her as an accused and a victim after she published a video clip announcing that she was sexually assaulted.
Geplaatst door El Nadeem op Woensdag 24 juni 2020
Ethics selection
In late June, human rights organizations, including the Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, denounced the ongoing security campaign against blogs on the Tik Tok platform, saying in a statement that the campaign "claims to protect the values of the Egyptian family, while at the same time ignoring thousands of reports about Torture, enforced disappearance, medical negligence in prisons, and direct media incitement to murder and violence. "
The statement demanded that the Public Prosecution "not to usurp itself in contravention of the law and the constitution the authority to impose a list of family values, which it imagines can be generalized to various societies, inspired by the values of different faiths and multiple cultures."
In the same context, the researcher and human rights activist Ahmed Al-Attar criticized the contradiction and discrimination in the firm handling by the public prosecutor with the phenomenon of tuk-tuk, and in return condoned ongoing human rights violations.
According to Al-Attar’s interview with Al-Jazeera Net, the phenomenon of tik-tok has caused public outrage, as many see it as helping to spread vice and moral corruption, as opposed to those who see content makers as victims of the system of state corruption and media and cinematic lawlessness in one way or another.
Al-Attar warned that condoning human rights violations encourages those responsible for them to continue and expand, and he denounced, "Why does the public prosecutor interact with preserving moral values, while at the same time failing and even being considered silent in terms of human and human rights violations ?!"
The Cairo Center and 6 human rights organizations denounce the ongoing security campaign led by the Public Prosecution against bloggers on social media platforms, allegedly protecting the values of the Egyptian family, while ignoring thousands of reports of torture, enforced disappearance, and medical negligence in prisons! https://t.co/sHeQcjEnn1
- CIHRS (@CIHRS_Alerts) June 24, 2020
In turn, the human rights activist Salma Ashraf considered that the Egyptian authorities' role of "guarding the virtue" by arresting the girls of the tuk-tuk in exchange for turning a blind eye to the human rights violations "an explicit hypocrisy".
The rights activist said in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that "the authorities claim to preserve morals and customs while violating all the rights of women and activists in particular, and they rape and violate the symptoms, all without any accountability, and even under the auspices of the state."
She added that the authority "retaliates against anyone who has a free opinion and may oppose its opinions. In all cases, it silences mouths and violates the right to freedom of expression, while sponsoring corruption and spreading it publicly."
She accused the Egyptian regime of "seeking to draw attention to its crimes by claiming to preserve virtue and morals."
I wish they would not stop tuk-tuk from Egypt, because of its sharp buds, debauchery, debauchery, and shortness of breath.
- The daughter of Al Fakhrani ❤️ (@ Remty74) June 2, 2020
One of the Sisawis said: # Sisi, the guardian of morality in # Egypt, arrested the girls of the tik-toc.
So I said: Brother, help me, my brother, because I thank God, I have not seen the Tok Tok, do these girls do anything more than actresses do in movies?
He said: The truth is no.
So I said: Why does he not arrest actresses?
He was silent, so
I said: Answer yourself!
- Mohammed Abu Al-Fadl (@mabulfadl) July 6, 2020
It is not fair to imprison
weak girls who are
accused of insulting public modesty
or inciting immorality, and
leaving famous actresses who
corrupted generations
such as Elham Shaheen and Rania Youssef
- Mostafa Ghali (@ 235223522352m) July 6, 2020
Objectionable phenomenon
As for the societal dimensions of the exciting phenomenon of Tuk-Tuk clips, the Egyptian Academy warned Samia Khadr, a professor of sociology, that it is a phenomenon "extremely dangerous to society, which has not been immune from the negative of social media," she said.
She added to Al-Jazeera Net that young people in Egypt represent 60% of society and have not been immunized intellectually, psychologically, socially, or even sexually, noting that the official and media movement in youth and children's support programs is very weak.
It also demanded that the state be more aware and sensitive in treating girls who slipped into practices against the behavior of society.