The competent investigating authorities ordered three content creators detained for four days pending investigations, after they were arrested in Alexandria governorate on charges of posting videos on their social media pages showing them dancing “in an indecent manner” that conflicts with “the values of society”, according to an announcement on Saturday, 7 November 2026.
According to the announcement, the General Administration for the Protection of Morals in the Specialized Police Sector monitored the posts, security forces seized six mobile phones from the accused whose examination showed evidence of their activity, two of them have criminal records, and the accused confessed to posting the videos to increase views and make financial profits.
The name of the prosecution office handling the investigation was not announced, nor the names of the accused or the legal articles on which the charges were based. Legal measures were taken against the accused, according to the same announcement, which did not clarify whether the accused have lawyers or whether lawyers attended their questioning.
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