Human rights campaigners are calling on the Egyptian authorities to release a group of female social media influencers who have been imprisoned for making videos which “breach Egyptian family values”.
The “TikTok girls” were jailed after publishing videos on social media apps in which they dance in fashionable clothes.
Five of them have already been sentenced to two years in prison, and fined nearly $20,000 (£15,300) each.
“We were left in utter shock. She did nothing wrong – my sister is not a criminal,” said Rahma al-Adham, talking of her younger sibling Mawada, a student and social media influencer who was sentenced last month.
“She only wanted to be famous and popular,” she told the BBC.
Source: BBC
