An Egyptian court announced today that a trial against the Egyptian model and influencer will take place on April 18 Say goodbye to Shimywho is being investigated for posting videos that “awakens sexual instincts” on different platforms.

The Alexandria Economic Court said in a statement that the trial will be held against the model after he was denounced by “violating the values ​​and principles” of Egyptian society and for “offending the public” with his posts about Instagram and TikTokwhere he has nearly a million followers in each and where he just appears posing and dancing.

“The videos represent an attack against family values ​​and principles, as they invite inciting immorality and awakening sexual instincts by showing the charm of one’s body,” the court said in the statement, which warned that this type of content should be age limited.

El Shimy, 29, was arrested two days ago upon arrival at Cairo International Airport and has since been held in the premises of a police station in Alexandria pending the end of the investigation and the start of the trial.

The model has already been the protagonist of a great controversy in 2020, when he was briefly detained after posing disguised as a pharaoh at the Sakkara archaeological sitesouthwest of Cairo, and taking pictures for their social networks without the relevant permits, authorities said at the time.

In recent years many other young women have been arrested in Egypt for a use deemed “inappropriate” of social networks, while they have been accused of “promoting debauchery” or, directly, prostitution or human trafficking.

Many of these Egyptian influencers currently are behind bars after being convicted of those chargeswhich local and international NGOs consider “very worrying” and another new example of the lack of freedom of expression that exists in Egypt.

EFE extension