Egypt.. The Interior Ministry comments on a video of two tourists with a “pornographic display and sexual innuendo”

On Tuesday evening, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior responded to widely popular video clips showing two female tourists displaying pornographic movements and sexual innuendos, which sparked interaction among activists on social networking sites. The Egyptian Interior Ministry re-published the video on its pages on social media platforms and confirmed the arrest of the two tourists.

The Ministry of Interior said in an attached statement: “In the context of uncovering the circumstances of video clips that were circulated on social media sites, which include two female tourists who ‘hold the nationality of one of the countries’ performing pornographic displays, making sexual innuendos, and harassing passers-by while they were walking in a number of streets in several governorates.” She continued: “Through examination, it was possible to identify and arrest the two women shown in the video clips (they hold the nationality of one of the countries, ‘one of them is a content creator’) within the Alexandria Governorate, and when they were confronted, they confessed to committing the incident as referred to, and that they filmed those clips and published them on their pages on social media sites to increase viewership rates.”

The Interior Ministry concluded its statement by stressing that “legal measures will be taken and the Public Prosecution will undertake the investigation.”