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Dozens of teenage "influencers" arrested, Egypt seizes profits from TikTok and accuses them of 'violating family values'

2025-08-29 18:23:33Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Dozens of teenage "influencers" arrested, Egypt seizes profits from
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Egyptian authorities have arrested teenage TikTok users with millions of followers, along with dozens of others in recent weeks on charges ranging from violating family values to money laundering.

Police have announced dozens of arrests, and prosecutors say they are investigating at least 10 cases of suspected illicit financial gains. They have imposed travel bans and asset freezes and confiscated equipment.

Critics say the escalation matches a broader effort by the state to control speech and codify behavior, in a country where social media has long served as one of the few alternatives to traditional largely state-controlled media, Reuters reports.

Many of those detained were only young children when activists used Facebook to mobilise the 2011 protests that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak.

Lawyers say the laws on impropriety are unclear. Authorities can review TikTok's entire catalog of posts, and if they find even a single post that they consider inappropriate, they can declare influencers' income illegal and charge them with financial crimes on their income.

Mariam Ayman, a 19-year-old who has 9.4 million followers posting videos since she was a schoolgirl under the name Suzy El Ordonia, has been jailed since August 2. She faces charges of distributing indecent content and money laundering of $300,000.

The Interior Ministry said she was arrested after authorities received complaints about her posts. In her latest video, posted the day before her arrest, she seemed aware that she was facing a threat.

"Egyptians are not arrested just because they appear on TikTok," she said.

She admitted that in previous videos she may have "disturbed, cursed or told a bad joke", but said this was meant to express frustration and "not teach the younger generation to follow suit".

Her lawyer, Marawan al-Gindy, declined to comment directly on her case, but said that in general the improper laws were being applied arbitrarily.


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