In April 2014, an alleged gang rape took place at the luxury Fairmont Nile City hotel in Cairo, Egypt in which a girl was drugged and raped by a group of young men from wealthy families. The allegations did not appear until July 2020.
The perpetrators are alleged to have signed the first letter of their names on the victim's body, recorded the crime on video, and sent the video to their friends.
Events before the incident revealed.
Social media users in Egypt sparked controversy several times in 2020 over many cases related to harassment and rape, following which the judicial authorities moved to encourage victims to submit reports to the Public Prosecution. Among those cases was what was known as the case of Ahmed Bassam Zaki, in which several Egyptian girls said that they were harassed and raped by him, after which the authorities arrested him and the Public Prosecution opened an investigation into the accusations and an Egyptian court ordered his imprisonment pending the investigations.
Egyptian actresses and users of social network sites during that period published details of many incidents of harassment. Many liken the campaign against harassment in Egypt to the one known as the "#MeToo" campaign, which exposed unethical practices against women in several countries.
The Egyptian Parliament's Legislative Committee agreed to amend the Criminal Procedure Law to include a proposal submitted by the government to ensure the confidentiality of victims' data in crimes related to harassment when these victims go to report those crimes. In an attempt to overcome Egyptian social norms regarding complaints of sexual assault.
Incident details.
According to the testimonies circulated, the incident dates back to February 2014. At the afterparty of the famous 'Tea Dance' party at Fairmont Nile City hotel, a group of young men belonging to wealthy families, slipped GHB (the date rape drug) in a young woman's drink, gang raped her unconscious body, drawing and signing their initials on her body. They also propped her around the hotel room, placing shampoo bottles on her, treating her like an inanimate object. They proudly video taped the entire crime and proudly circulated it for years by email.
The men involved in the crime are: Amr Faris Komy, Amr Hussein &amp; Khaled Mahmoud (brothers), Omar Hafez, and Ahmed Toulan (who slipped the drug in her drink) and Amr Sedawy (her close friend at the time who was behind the camera).
Social media outrage.
In July 2020, the Instagram page that successfully broadcast the testimonies against Ahmed Bassam Zaki, resulting in his arrest, started alluding to a video-taped gang rape crime that happened in February 2014, asking people to turn in the video evidence for it. Over the following few days, people on social media began to slowly give details of the actual crime this was referring to. After all, this had been widely circulated. More details came out about this being a serial crime for these men, and that they had done this quite frequently over the past 10 years, and that there were many more men involved.
After one full month of this social media outbreak, the public was getting frustrated about why these men had not been arrested yet. Word had already spread that most of them had fled the country. On August 24, 2020, the Egyptian prosecution officially announced the wanted arrest of 9 men involved in the Fairmont crime (including 3 men involved in a related gang rape crime). A few days later, it was reported that a few of the witnesses in the case were also detained.
Investigation details.
While on the search for the Fairmont video, another video was found of another gang rape crime, where 3 men of the same extended circle of rapists drugged and raped a young woman in the North Coast. The three men involved were Amir Zayed, Youssef Korra and Sherif Komy (the brother of Amr Komy, one of the Fairmont rapists). This case has already been moved to the courts for trial (September 13, 2021). Amir Zayed was caught while trying to flee the country, while Youssef Korra and Sherif Komy had successfully fled. Sherif Komy is suspected to be in London, United Kingdom with his brother, where there is no extradition treaty to Egypt .
After 10 months of the Fairmont scandal erupting, the case was temporarily paused, the accused rapists were let go, and the email created by the prosecution asking the public to send the video evidence of the crime to was officially closed down. If new evidence comes to light, the case will be reopened. Activists are still actively looking for the video.
The witnesses that were detained remain under a travel ban, as their cases are still open. 
Amir Zayed is currently the only one of the 9 accused rapists that is still in custody.