2 Arrested For Blackmailing Egyptian Girl Who Died By Suicide

The case of internet shaming and loss of a young life has stirred angry demands on social media in Egypt for those responsible to be held to account.

Two youths were arrested Thursday over the suicide of a schoolgirl whom they were allegedly blackmailing with digitally altered photos of her on the internet.

The case of internet shaming and loss of a young life has stirred angry demands on social media in Egypt for those responsible to be held to account.

Basant Khaled, 17, who lived with her family in a village of northern Egypt, died after swallowing poison on December 23.

A source in the prosecutor general's office said she was being blackmailed after having refused to have a relationship with the youths.