Egyptian women and girls who for decades have endured sexual harassment and abuse in silence are now raising their voices en masse to demand justice and reform of Egypt's sexual harassment laws.

Defying the stigma associated with sexual violence, thousands of Egyptian women and girls are joining a rising call for harassers and rapists to be held accountable for their misdeeds. The Arabic hashtags "Listen to the voice of Egyptian women" and "Where is justice for Egyptian women" have gone viral on Egyptian social media platforms after multiple allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape surfaced against a purported “serial harasser” named Ahmed Bassam Zaki.

In a message directed at Zaki and other harassers, one activist tweeted July 6, “No means no! No does not mean convince me. No does not mean maybe. No does not mean yes." Other activists expressed solidarity and support for the “brave” survivors who shared online accounts of their traumatic experiences of sexual assault at Zaki's hands.

The social media campaign against Zaki, a business student in his mid-20s studying in Spain, was started July 1 by an Instagram account created by an activist who chose not to disclose her identity along with a group of survivors who claimed they had been harassed or sexually assaulted by Zaki at some point in the last five years. Using the Instagram handle @assaultpolice, the women urged other survivors to share evidence of sexual abuse by Zaki.