{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-02T17:25:21.316Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"egypt","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-sharqia-egypt-ai-altered-photos-of-women-fake-sex-service-pages-deposit-fraud-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'أقر بتجميعه صور الفتيات المتاحة عبر منصات التواصل الاجتماعي، ثم تعديلها ومعالجتها بواسطة تطبيقات الذكاء الاصطناعي (AI) لإظهارها بشكل مغرٍ، وإعادة نشرها لاستقطاب راغبي المتعة الحرام'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'تجميع صور فتيات متداولة على صفحات منصات التواصل الاجتماعي المختلفة، ثم إعادة تعديلها باستخدام تطبيقات الذكاء الاصطناعي'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'من خلال سرقة صور فتيات من صفحات مختلفة وإعادة تعديلها باستخدام تطبيقات الذكاء الاصطناعي، ثم نشرها عبر الصفحات التي يديرها'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the Interior Ministry, the suspect admitted collecting photos of young women from social media, altering them with AI applications to make them look alluring and reposting them on pages that presented him as a woman offering paid sexual services.","causal_attribution":"Interior Ministry account of the suspect's admission, relayed by three outlets (one chain); no tool or forensic finding is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'كان يطلب تحويل مبالغ مالية عبر المحافظ الإلكترونية كعربون ومقدم تعاقد، وفور تسلمه الأموال يقوم بحظر (بلوك) الضحايا وإغلاق هواتفه'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'كان يطلب مبالغ مالية مسبقة من ضحاياه نظير الاتفاق المزعوم، ليقدم فور استلام تلك الأموال وتحويلها إليه عبر الوسائل الإلكترونية على إغلاق هواتفه وحظر التواصل معهم'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'وبمجرد تحويل الأموال المطلوبة، يقوم بإغلاق هاتفه وقطع التواصل معهم'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The suspect asked people who answered the pages to send advance payments through mobile wallets and, once the money arrived, blocked them and switched off his phones; the number of people and amounts are not stated.","causal_attribution":"Interior Ministry account; the payments are described generally and no victim account is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'وتبين أنه (عاطل – مقيم بدائرة قسم شرطة ثان الزقازيق بالشرقية)'; 'وحُرِّر المحضر اللازم، وتولت النيابة العامة التحقيقات'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'أعلنت الأجهزة الأمنية بوزارة الداخلية اليوم الأبعاء الموافق 30 سبتمبر 2026 القبض على عاطل في الشرقية'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'وعثر بحوزته على هاتفين محمولين، وبفحصهما تبين احتواؤهما على دلائل تؤكد نشاطه الإجرامي'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police arrested the suspect, an unemployed man living in the Zagazig Second police district of Sharqia, with two phones holding evidence of the activity, and the public prosecution took over the investigation; the ministry announced the arrest on 30 September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Interior Ministry statement on the arrest; allegations, not a court finding."}],"effects":[{"label":"people who answered the pages paid mobile-wallet deposits and were then blocked","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"women's social media photos were taken and altered with AI apps to advertise sexual services","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.soralive.com/93737","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read live in Arabic on 2026-10-02 (Soralive, 1 October 2026); relays the Interior Ministry statement. Researcher translation. The phrase 'أعمال منافية للآداب' (literally, acts contrary to public morals) is rendered as paid sexual services, and 'فتيات' as young women.","independence_group":"egypt-moi-sharqia-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://shbabbek.com/show/284000","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read live in Arabic on 2026-10-02 (Shbabbek, 30 September 2026); relays the Interior Ministry announcement. Researcher translation. The phrase 'أعمال منافية للآداب' (literally, acts contrary to public morals) is rendered as paid sexual services, and 'فتيات' as young women.","independence_group":"egypt-moi-sharqia-statement"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.egypttelegraph.com/article/282957/ضبط-عاطل-انتحل-صفة-فتاة-للنصب-على","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read live in Arabic on 2026-10-02 (Egypt Telegraph, 30 September 2026); relays the Interior Ministry account. The article also recalls an earlier, unrelated Helwan case, which is not used. Researcher translation. The phrase 'أعمال منافية للآداب' (literally, acts contrary to public morals) is rendered as paid sexual services, and 'فتيات' as young women.","independence_group":"egypt-moi-sharqia-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How many people paid deposits and how much was taken.","How many women's photos were used, whether any were identified or told, and which AI apps were used.","When the pages began and whether the suspect has been charged."],"geography":{"basis":"The suspect lived in the Zagazig Second police district of Sharqia governorate and was arrested there by Egypt's Interior Ministry (Soralive; Shbabbek; Egypt Telegraph). The reports do not say where the people who paid or the women photographed live. The public prosecution is investigating; no court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["EG"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter: photos of real women were altered with AI apps and used on pages advertising sexual services to take deposits from people who answered them. The account is one Egyptian Interior Ministry statement relayed by Soralive, Shbabbek and Egypt Telegraph; counts are unquantified. The suspect is not named in the reports read.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-02"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Interior Ministry says the suspect admitted altering photos of young women from social media with AI applications before reposting them on his pages (Soralive; Shbabbek; Egypt Telegraph). The AI-altered images depicted those women (depicted_or_impersonated). The people who paid saw the images but are reported to have dealt with the man by message and phone; no AI relation to them is reported. No tool is named and no forensic detail is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Sharqia, Egypt: police say an unemployed man took women's photos from social media, altered them with AI apps and ran pages posing as a woman offering paid sexual services, blocking people once they had sent deposits; arrest in Zagazig announced on 30 September 2026","summary":"According to an Interior Ministry statement relayed by Soralive, Shbabbek and Egypt Telegraph on 30 September and 1 October 2026, Egypt's cybercrime and morals police arrested an unemployed man living in the Zagazig Second police district of Sharqia governorate. Investigators say he ran social media pages that presented him as a young woman offering paid sexual services. In the ministry's account he admitted collecting photos of young women posted on social media and altering them with AI apps to make them look alluring, then reposting them on his pages to draw in customers. He asked those who replied to transfer advance payments through mobile wallets as a deposit, then blocked them and switched off his phones once the money arrived. Two phones seized from him held chats and other evidence of the activity, and the public prosecution took over the investigation. The reports do not give the number of people deceived, the amounts taken or the number of women whose photos were used.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-30","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI apps used to alter photos of women taken from social media, per the Interior Ministry's account of the suspect's admission","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The Interior Ministry says people who answered pages advertising paid sexual services sent deposits by mobile wallet and were then blocked, and that the pages used photos of women taken from social media and altered with AI apps; numbers and amounts are not reported (ministry statement via Soralive, Shbabbek and Egypt Telegraph).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The ministry statement refers to victims (الضحايا) who paid deposits and to photos of young women, but gives no number of people deceived, no amounts and no number of women whose photos were used. Unquantified; numeric fields are zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"EG","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.soralive.com/93737","primarySourceLabel":"Soralive, 1 October 2026: ذكاء اصطناعي وصور وهمية.. تفاصيل ضبط عاطل ينصب على راغبي المتعة باسم فتاة بالشرقية","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-02T03:35:45.36581+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:35:45.36581+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-altered-images","impersonation","fake-profile","advance-payment-fraud","mobile-wallet","egypt","sharqia","arrest","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-egypt-damanhur-court-reportedly-convicts-young-man-over-ai-fabricated-sexual-content-blackmail-of-relative","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"قضت محكمة جنايات دمنهور، الدائرة السابعة","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"بحبس شاب لمدة سنة مع الشغل وإيقاف تنفيذ العقوبة، ومحو كل الصور والرسائل المتعلقة بالجريمة","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"لإدانته بابتزاز إحدى قريباته بفبركة مقاطع وصور إباحية لها باستخدام تقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"بالحبس لمدة سنة واحدة مع الشغل وإيقاف تنفيذ العقوبة، ومحو كافة الصور والرسائل الخادشة","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"أسباب حكمها الصادر ضد طالب بالحبس لمدة عام مع إيقاف التنفيذ","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Damanhur Criminal Court (seventh circuit) sentenced a young man to one year of imprisonment with labour, suspended, and ordered all related images and messages erased, on conviction for blackmailing a female relative by fabricating sexual images and clips of the relative using AI technologies.","causal_attribution":"Court-beat reports of one judgment. Sada El-Balad and Akhbar El-Yom carry near-parallel wording, which indicates a shared source, and Youm7 reports the reasons filed for the same judgment. None shows a separate chain to the court record, so the three outlets form one independence group. The reviewer did not see the judgment. Two of the three outlets call the accused a young man and Youm7 calls the accused a student."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"بإنشاء حسابات وهمية على منصتي فيسبوك وماسينجر، ودمج صور شخصية للمجني عليها على مقاطع خادشة للحياء، ثم إرسالها إليها","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"وقام بدمج وتركيب صور شخصية للمجني عليها (قريبته) على مقاطع وصور إباحية خادشة للحياء بإستخدام أدوات الذكاء الإصطناعي","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"قام المتهم بإرسال تلك المقاطع بكثافة للمجني عليها","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the reports, the accused created fake Facebook and Messenger accounts, merged the relative's personal photographs into indecent clips and images using AI tools, and sent the clips to the relative in volume.","causal_attribution":"Account of the facts as given in the reports of the hearing. The AI tools are not named and the reviewer did not see the material."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"لتهديدها بنشرها وفضحها بين أفراد أسرتها لإجبارها على إقامة علاقة جنسية معه","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"مهدداً إياها بنشرها وفضحها بين عائلتها لخدش شرفها، مالم تنصع لرغباته الدنيئة في إقامة علاقة جنسية معه","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The accused threatened to publish the material and expose the relative before family members unless the relative entered a sexual relationship with the accused.","causal_attribution":"The threat is described in the reports as the offence found by the court. No source reports that the material was published beyond the messages sent to the relative."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"إلا أن المجني عليها رفضت الانصياع وأبلغت السلطات التي تتبعت الحسابات وضبطت المتهم","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"رفضها الانصياع للتهديد قادها لإبلاغ الجهات المختصة التي تتبعت الحسابات وأوقعت بالمتهم","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The relative refused to comply and reported the threats to the authorities, who traced the accounts and arrested the accused.","causal_attribution":"Court-beat account. No report gives the date of the complaint or of the arrest."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"أعلنت المجني عليها ووالدها التصالح مع المتهم نظرًا لصلة القرابة، ودرءًا لما قد يسفر عنه سجن المتهم من إساءة لسمعة العائلة ككل، واشترطت عليه عدم تكرار الجريمة","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"وإشترطت على المتهم عدم العودة لمثل هذه الجريمة النكراء معها أو مع أي فتاة أخرى","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"قررت الرأفة بالمتهم والإكتفاء بحبسه سنة مع إيقاف التنفيذ","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"وهو تصالح المجني عليها مع المتهم","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"At the hearing the relative and a parent announced a reconciliation with the accused because of the family tie and to avoid harm to the family's reputation, and the relative required that the offence not be repeated. The court then chose leniency and suspended the sentence.","causal_attribution":"The reconciliation is the parties' statement as relayed by the court reporters and does not withdraw the reported facts. The reported statement that it would avoid harm to the family's reputation is the relative's own stated reason."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"إساءة استعمال التقنيات الحديثة يمثل ناقوس خطر يهدد بتدمير الأسر وتشويه السمعة","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"وطالبت محكمة جنايات دمنهور المشرع المصري التدخل العاجل وسن تشريع خاص ينظم استخدام تقنية الذكاء الاصطناعي","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The court warned that misuse of modern technologies threatens families and reputations, and its reasons, reported on 25 June 2026, asked Egyptian lawmakers to legislate the use of AI.","causal_attribution":"Context for the institutional response. The reasons are relayed by the court reporters and were not seen."}],"effects":[{"label":"A female relative was reportedly threatened with publication of AI-fabricated sexual clips to coerce a sexual relationship","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.elbalad.news/7008783","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read in Arabic by the reviewer. Locators are verbatim Arabic and assertions are the reviewer's English paraphrase. No human translator checked the paraphrase.","independence_group":"damanhur-criminal-court-judgment-2026-06"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/4837136/1/%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%89-","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read in Arabic by the reviewer. Locators are verbatim Arabic and assertions are the reviewer's English paraphrase. No human translator checked the paraphrase.","independence_group":"damanhur-criminal-court-judgment-2026-06"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.youm7.com/story/2026/6/25/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%86%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85-%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%89-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A9/7461014","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ar","translation_note":"Read in Arabic by the reviewer. Locators are verbatim Arabic and assertions are the reviewer's English paraphrase. No human translator checked the paraphrase.","independence_group":"damanhur-criminal-court-judgment-2026-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["No report gives the date of the offence, the complaint, the arrest or the referral to court, so the event start is unknown and the offence may predate 2026. The verdict was reported on 17 and 18 June 2026.","The AI tools are not named and the reviewer did not see the material or the judgment. Every account rests on court-beat summaries of the hearing and of the reasons.","The accused is called a young man in two reports and a student in Youm7. The accused's age is not stated.","The victim's age is not stated in the cited reports and the victim is not named. Reports of the court's reasons that are read but not cited (Dostor, Vetogate and Masrawy, 25 June 2026) describe the victim in terms that indicate an adult.","The reports describe threats to publish the material and do not say whether it was published or shown to anyone other than the relative.","Whether other relatives or other women were targeted is not reported.","The date of the hearing is not printed. Reports date the reasons 25 June 2026, while Sky News Arabia of 1 August 2026 says the reasons were filed in July.","The Damanhur Criminal Court judgment itself was not found. No appeal is reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The reports place the offence in the Damanhur district and the trial in the Damanhur Criminal Court, and Akhbar El-Yom refers to the Egyptian family in the court's warning. The country was not inferred from the language or the publisher.","court_countries":["EG"],"event_countries":["EG"],"affected_person_countries":["EG"]},"publication":{"basis":"Eight Arabic reports of the hearing and reasons, published 17 to 25 June 2026 and 1 August 2026, were read, and three are cited. Two verdict reports carry near-parallel wording and the others report the reasons for the same judgment, with no separate chain to the court record, so all claims are reported and the cited sources share one independence group. The victim and the accused are not named and the victim's family details are not given. The judges and the reporters are not named. The material is not described beyond AI-fabricated sexual images and clips. No source dates the offence, so the case is published undated and outside the 2026 event-year count.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Reports of the judgment say the accused fabricated sexual images and clips of the relative using AI tools and merged the relative's personal photographs into them. The tools are not named and the reviewer saw neither the material nor the judgment.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Damanhur Criminal Court reportedly convicts a young man of blackmailing a female relative with AI-fabricated sexual images and clips (Egypt)","summary":"Egyptian outlets reported on 17 and 18 June 2026 that the Damanhur Criminal Court convicted a young man of blackmailing a female relative with sexual images and video clips fabricated using AI tools. According to the reports, the accused created fake Facebook and Messenger accounts, merged the relative's personal photographs into indecent clips, and sent the clips to the relative with a threat to publish them and expose the relative before family members unless the relative entered a sexual relationship with the accused. The relative refused and reported the threats to the authorities, who traced the accounts and arrested the accused. At the hearing the relative and a parent announced a reconciliation to protect the family's reputation, and the court imposed one year of imprisonment with labour, suspended, and ordered the images and messages erased. The court's reasons, reported on 25 June 2026, asked Egyptian lawmakers to legislate the use of AI. The reports give no date for the offence, name no AI tool and do not state the victim's age.","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-06-17","aiSystem":"Unspecified AI tools used to fabricate images and video clips","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Court-beat reports say a female relative was sent AI-fabricated sexual clips and threatened with publication and exposure before family members to coerce a sexual relationship. The relative refused and reported the threats, and no publication of the material beyond the messages is reported. The relative's stated reason for the reconciliation at the hearing was to avoid harm to the family's reputation. No other account of the impact is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The reports describe one female relative as the blackmailed victim (Sada El-Balad: one of the accused's female relatives). No other victim is reported, and one is used as a documented minimum because the reports do not say whether other relatives were targeted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/4837136/1/%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%89-","primarySourceLabel":"Akhbar El-Yom, 17 June 2026, court sentences a young man to a suspended year over blackmail of a relative with AI-fabricated content","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:09:43.708467+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:44:23.96028+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]}]}