Cairo - Prosecutors in Egypt ordered on Sunday a trial for a
lawyer who had called on a TV talk show for raping women who wear
ripped jeans.
Last month, lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh said on a private television
station that harassing or raping women appearing in public in ripped
jeans is a "national duty."
His remarks triggered an outcry among women's rights groups who filed
legal complaints against him.
Al-Wahsh is facing charges of inciting sexual assaults and spreading
news that disrupts public peace, state-run newspaper al-Ahram
reported online.
His trial will begin on December 2 at the State Security Misdemeanour
Court in Cairo, according to the report.
In 2014, Egypt passed a law stipulating harsher punishments
for sexual harassment and expediting court trials for suspects.
Conservatives in the mostly Muslim country usually blame women for
wearing "revealing" clothes. However, Muslim women dressed in the
full-body niqab have also said they experience harassment.