Top prosecutor refers sexual predator to criminal court over harassment charges

CAIRO – 1 September 2020: Egypt’s top prosecutor ordered on Tuesday the referral of accused sexual predator Ahmed Bassam Zaki to a specialized criminal court to be tried over harassment accusations.

Zaki is facing charges of raping three girls, below 18 years old, and threatening them and blackmailing them, into sexual intercourse.

He is also accused of inciting immorality, stalking, violating society value by violating his victims’ privacy through constant texting and taking pictures of her while kissing her without their consent using his social media accounts.

Zaki is also accused of drug possession and abuse.

For more details about the case, read our wrap-up story: 

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/89420/ET-WRAP-UP-All-you-need-to-know-about-sexual

The Public Prosecution has established evidence for the accusations based on the defendant’s acknowledgment and the victims’ testimonies and other witnesses, in addition of police investigations, text messages and screenshots of the messages between the defendant and the victims.

Multiple Egyptian girls and women filed official complaints against the same man, Ahmed Bassam Zaki, who within days, became a public opinion case, especially after an Instagram page that was set up to expose him identified 93 credible accusers, some as young as 13.

Zaki was detained on Saturday, July 4, pending further investigations into accusations that he raped, sexually assaulted and sexually harassed dozens of Egyptian and foreign women and girls.