CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced a 25-year-old woman to three yearsin prison for “sexually harassing” a monkey in the country’s north, statedaily Al-Ahram reported Friday.
A court in Mansoura city charged Basma Ahmed with “inciting debauchery” and”committing an obscene act in public”, a judicial source told the newspaper.
She was arrested in October after a 90-second video of the incident wentviral, Al-Ahram said.
The video shows Ahmed laughing while touching the genitals of a monkey at apet shop in the Nile Delta city and making sexual innuendos as peoplearound her chuckle.
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At court she “confessed… to the incident but said she did not mean tocommit an indecent act and that she had been tickling the monkey”.
The video sparked a fierce backlash online. -APP/AFP
