Justice
In the Last 4 Days, 91 Women Have Been Sexually Assaulted in Tahrir Square. Can Anything Be Done?
A group called Tahrir Bodyguard is trying to keep women safe, but their task is proving more difficult than ever.
As yet another wave of street protests sweep through Egypt and the government is once again in crisis, women who turn out for the demonstrations, especially in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, are vulnerable to sexual attacks, as they have been since the earliest days of the Arab Spring.
In the last four days, "mobs sexually assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square ... amid a climate of impunity," according to a representative of Human Rights Watch.