Egyptian security forces arrested (YouTube) creator Ahmed Hassan and his wife Zainab, after the prosecution summoned them to investigate reports accusing them of intimidating their daughter and endangering her life, in a video clip posted by the couple on their YouTube account.
Egyptian media reported that the Public Prosecution decided to imprison Ahmed and Zainab for 4 days pending investigations, and charged the two spouses with trafficking in human beings, exposing a child to danger, and exploiting her for financial gain, according to a communication submitted against them by the Ministry of Solidarity.
The couple had published a video clip in which the wife disguised himself with make-up, to make her features dark.
To monitor her daughter's reaction, which was already achieved through a little panic.
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The clip angered social media users and defenders of children's rights, and the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood announced that legal measures would be taken against "Youtuber" Ahmed Hassan and his wife for posting videos that violate children's rights.
An official at the Ministry of Social Solidarity also demanded that the spouses be charged with human trafficking in accordance with Article 291 of the Penal Code and the Anti-Human Trafficking Law of 1964, which carries a penalty of life imprisonment and a fine of 500 thousand pounds (approximately 30 thousand dollars).
In the investigations of the prosecution, Ahmed Hassan said that he and his wife did not intend to intimidate or endanger the life of his daughter, noting that the circulating video is a father's joke of his child and a joke.
While his wife said that her coloring her face black as a kind of test of the intelligence of the child, indicating that she and her husband document the childhood moments of their daughter.
This is not the first time that the spouses have been criticized for the abuse of their child, as a video clip circulated last August in which the father intimidated his daughter, and despite the reports submitted against the spouses, no court rulings were issued against them.
Ahmed and Zainab's YouTube channel has about 6 million followers, and over the past four years they have achieved more than a billion views, and the number of views per video is not less than one million views, as they present daily scenes from their lives, and many "pranks" and panic situations in front of the camera, This often raises the discontent of followers.