2 Egypt cops to be tried for sexual assault

(MENAFN- Arab News) CAIRO: Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday ordered two policemen to stand trial for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Cairo in a case which stirred outrage a judicial source said.The incident has been widely reported over past weeks in a country faced with increased cases of sexual harassment since its 2011 revolution. The two policemen allegedly stopped a car driven by a man and demanded to escort his female passenger home.Instead they drove her off in a police truck to an isolated area and tore off her clothes and sexually assaulted her according to the charge sheet. They face up to life in prison if convicted a judicial official told AFP.President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi has passed a law last June to combat sexual crimes and ordered police to crack down on harassment and cases of sexual assault.