Nayera Ashraf was the victim of a misogynist extremism that is all too widespread

On June 20, in broad daylight, Nayera Ashraf was standing outside Mansoura University in Egypt, where she was a student, after disembarking from a bus that had brought her from another city. A male student walked up to her, and proceeded to stab her several times – she died that same day.

Her supposed “provocation”, according to the murderer, was quite simple: Ashraf had refused his advances and rejected his proposal of marriage. The killer has been arrested, and faces prosecution – a prosecution that seems to be rather straightforward, considering he admitted his guilt, and that there are multiple eye witnesses and recordings from surveillance cameras at the scene.

The opening of the article. The full text is at The National.