Former Student at Elite Egyptian University Gets 8 More Years in #MeToo Case

CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Sunday convicted a former student at an elite university of attempted rape and drug possession, sentencing him to eight years imprisonment atop a previous punishment for other sexual misconduct convictions.

It was the second verdict against disgraced former American University in Cairo student Ahmed Bassam Zaki, in a case that has rattled Egypt's conservative society and fueled the #MeToo movement in the Arab world's most populous country. The Cairo criminal court sentenced Zaki to seven years in prison for the attempted rape of three women and a year for possession of hashish, according to victims' lawyer Ahmed Ragheb.   The women were minors at the time of the alleged crimes, according to court documents. Sunday's verdict can be appealed to a higher court.