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Page last updated at 05:04 GMT, Monday, 19 October 2009 06:04 UK

Egyptians suffer 'phone stalking'

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A growing number of Egyptian women complain that they are being pursued on their mobile phones by men they have never met.

Sociologists believe a wave of phone harassment is driven by increasing sexual frustrations within conservative Egyptian society, where sex outside marriage is strictly forbidden.

Christian Fraser reports.

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