Cairo’s Economic Appeals Court ruled this Tuesday to accept TikToker Om Makkah’s appeal against her original sentence of six months in prison and a 100,000 EGP fine. The court dropped the prison sentence entirely and cut the fine down to 50,000 EGP.
The original conviction came from Cairo’s Economic Court, which had found her guilty of violating Egyptian social values through the content she posted on TikTok. Alongside the indecent content charges, she also faced accusations of money laundering tied to profits made from that same activity. She denied all of it during investigations, insisting her videos were purely for entertainment with no intention to offend.
Investigators confronted her with surveillance reports, technical analysis of the content in question, and financial records linked to her bank accounts. The asset freeze on her accounts remains in place as part of that same case rather than a separate investigation, as authorities continue to look into the legitimacy of her digital earnings.
