The five are to appear in court charged with having ‘threatened the victim Heidi and her sister by means of a social media app, diffusing indecent images attributed to the former and attacking the sanctity of her private life’, the prosecution’s statement said. — Person photo created by rawpixel.com - www.freepik.com
CAIRO: Prosecutors in Egypt charged five people after a teenager committed suicide over alleged blackmail using doctored images – the second such incident within weeks.
Heidi, 15, took her own life earlier in February, local media reported.
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