CAIRO: An American University in Cairo (AUC) student grabbed hold of a man who sexually harassed her inside the campus and took him to the police station where he will face charges, said the student who shared her story on social networking site Facebook. The student, Tuna Leon Nassif, wrote that a construction worker contracted by the university harassed her on Sunday. She said he disappeared soon after the incident and she had to report him to the campus security. The security personnel soon located the harasser and caught him and filed a report against him inside the university. Nassif said she then took the man shortly after to a local police station where she filed a report against him and left him to spend the night in jail. He was later taken to the prosecutor's office on Monday for questioning. If convicted the man could face jail time and a fine, depending on the nature of the assault. Nassif did not describe the assault, but alluded that it might have been intrusive enough for her to take him to be arrested. Sexual harassment, a modern social epidemic that hits two-thirds of Egyptian women daily, is lightly dealt with by police officers and has no conclusive definition in the Egyptian penal code. But women like Nassif seem determined to stamp out harassment in their local environment. “Just finished my final and caught another perve on AUC campus, immediately reported it to security!” she wrote on Thursday. In June 2008, Noha Rushdi, a 27-year-old Egyptian filmmaker took the man who harassed her to court and earned a landmark ruling that saw the assaulter sentenced to three years in jail and a $900 fine.
