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Egyptian presenter jailed for discussing pre-marital sex on TV

doaa_salah Doaa Salah, the TV presenter | Image via YouTube

Wearing a fake baby bump, Doaa Salah, a presenter has been sentenced to three years in prison for discussing pregnancy outside marriage on Al Nahar TV.

In the show called With Dody, she asked viewers if they had considered having sex before marriage and suggested a woman could marry briefly to have children before divorcing.

On the episode called Buy a Man, she said, "You simply need to have the money and then separate".

Ashraf Naji, a lawyer filed a case against her after the show went live in July, post which, she went on trial. She had prodded thoughts like, "“If she gets divorce she becomes a single mother. If, God forbid, she is widowed, she becomes single mother. So can you choose, yourself, to become a single mother before you get married?", on the show.

She has been convicted of disclaiming public decency in a conservative Egyptian society where pre-marital sex is considered a tabboo. Having a child outside marriage is frowned upon. an increasingly conservative society, Egypt has imprisoned 70 men and women on vague morality laws for being gay in recent months.

She was also ordered to pay 10,000 Egyptian pounds (£430) in compensation by a court in Cairo. According to media reports, authorities said the ideas in the programme 'threatened the fabric of Egyptian life'.

She went on to talk about sperm donation, a widely practised method for conception in western countries and suggested that a potential husband could be paid for taking part in a short-lived marriage.

She was suspended from her presenting job for three months in the aftermath of the broadcast, before legal action was taken against her. The three-year sentence is open to appeal.

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