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Jail for Egypt TV host who encouraged pre-marital sex

November 2, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Egyptian TV presenter, Doaa Salah [Doaa Salah/Facebook]

An Egyptian court sentenced a TV presenter to three years in prison on charges of inciting immorality and debauchery after she said woman could engage in a temporary relationship with a man for the purpose of becoming pregnant and later become single mothers

The court ordered Doaa Salah to pay 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($672) in compensation in addition to the jail term.

Salah can appeal the ruling.

Lawyer Ashraf Nagy filed a lawsuit against the interviewer accusing her of incitement to immorality and committing a dishonourable act. Salah had appeared on an episode on her show on Al-Nahar TV dressed as pregnant woman and discussed how women could be single mothers if they wanted.

The episode came against the backdrop of two recent cases that sparked controversy in Egypt. The first case is of Hadeer Mekkawi who accuses a man of turning his back on her and their child after she became pregnant and gave birth. The man denied that the baby was his.

In another case, a woman offered to pay a man to impregnate her.

Salah’s TV programme, “The Dody Show”, had been suspended for three months after the episode aired in late July after the show was threatening “the fabric of the Egyptian family”.

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