The public prosecution department was not available for comment and the state press centre did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters. His lawyer could not be reached for comment. Three sources close to Bedour said he was accused of drug abuse and debauchery. 28 after offering to testify on behalf of the victim, his sister says.Īt the station, Bedour was detained and has been held in jail for four months on morality charges, relatives and activists said, even though the then 14-year-old had no connection to the alleged rape and was not at the scene when it occurred at Cairo’s Fairmont Nile City Hotel in 2014.
Student Seif Bedour wanted to support his friend, a witness in a high-profile rape case, by accompanying her to a Cairo police station when she was brought in by officers on Aug. A police officer stands on a street in Cairo, Egypt, March 25, 2020.
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