Haneen Hossam and Mawada al-Adham win appeal over two-year sentence

An Egyptian appeals court has acquitted two young women imprisoned for “attacking society’s values” over videos they published on TikTok, a court official said.

“The court of appeal accepted the appeal filed by Haneen Hossam and Mawada al-Adham against their imprisonment … on charges of incitement to debauchery and attacking society’s values,” the official said, asking not to be named.

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

How we survive: I was lost in the desert for nine and a half days – and sustained myself with raw bats and urine

In 1994, Mauro Prosperi was running an ultramarathon through the Sahara when…

UK government funding anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

The Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which is openly homophobic, is a direct…

Rare 1,000-year-old ‘Viking sword’ is discovered in near perfect condition on a river bed in Poland

A rare 1,000-year-old ‘Viking sword’ has been found in near perfect condition…

The battle for free will in the face of determinism | Letters

Oliver Burkeman’s long read pitches philosophical readers against the more scientifically minded…