An Egyptian judge sentenced a man, who raped and impregnated his own daughter, to death during a court session held on Tuesday, Arab Youm reported. 

The man, who has now been identified as M. S., was previously arrested in Egypt's Kafar Al Zayat and had confessed to his horrific crime, claiming it was the work of "a devil that overpowered him."

The man's arrest came after his wife found out their 16-year-old daughter was pregnant and reported the incident to authorities as the girl was underage. 

According to news reports, the woman was shocked when investigations revealed her husband was sexually assaulting the couple's own child.  

As police expanded investigations into the case, the teenage victim shared details of her father's crime with prosecutors. 

In her testimony, the girl said her father had raped her several times, resulting in her getting pregnant. No other details were reported on the teenage victim's pregnancy. 

Her convicted father will now be placed on death row, it remains unclear whether he is set to appeal his conviction. 

Unfortunately, this isn't the first shocking case of incestuous sexual assault to be reported in Egypt this year. 

Earlier last week, a similar case was reported in the country's Kafar Al Sheikh, where a man was arrested for raping his own mother.  

The horrific assault reportedly saw the 25-year-old abuser tie up his mother and rape her several times, all while threatening her with a knife. 

Hours after the attack, the 48-year-old victim reported her son, who is a general security officer, to police, who immediately arrested him. 

During investigations, the man confessed his crime and now faces strict legal consequences. 

On Tuesday, a 9-day-long Lebanese LGBTQI+ event put a halt to its activities after its organizer, Hadi Damien, was detained and taken in for questioning.

Beirut Pride, the collaborative platform behind the event, began on May 12. 

However, following alleged complaints and claims, Damien was detained and held in custody overnight. He was brought in to the station at 11 P.M. on May 14 and released the next day at 3 P.M., Damien told StepFeed. 

"There was no violence, but it wasn't a pleasant experience," he said.

"We were 39 people in a detention room of a five-person capacity," he wrote in an official statement.

Damien has since been released by authorities after agreeing to suspend the rest of the week's events - which were scheduled to continue through till May 20. He also signed a pledge, assuring authorities that all activities will remain suspended.

Had Damien refused to sign, he may have been faced with misdemeanor charges or a criminal case punishable by up to two years in prison. 

"I advised him to sign. We want him outside not behind bars," said Layal Saqr, Damien's lawyer, according to Al Araby.

Prior to his detainment, Damien had received a call regarding a "text reading" event, which was scheduled to take place at Zoukak Theatre Studio. 

The censorship bureau at the General Security claimed Beirut Pride did not get the required approval needed to host such an event. 

According to Beirut Pride's statement, "text readings" are exempted from the stated requirement as the event is not a performance, rather a reading. 

Damien was "interrogated over allegedly encouraging debauchery and offending public decency" after a distorted Arabic version of the Beirut Pride program was sent to the Public Prosecution.

The document was twisted to make the "happenings of Beirut Pride appear like events of debauchery, disrespect of general law, while using derogatory terms to refer to LGBT individuals," Beirut Pride's statement said.

Under the controversial Article 534, which says sexual acts that "contradict the laws of nature" can be punished by up to one year in prison, LGBTQI+ individuals are sometimes prosecuted in Lebanon. 

However, court rulings in recent years have challenged the use of the law.

In 2017, Lebanon hosted an LGBTQI+ Pride week, which organizers called a "first" for the country. 

The week-long gathering positioned itself as a "collaborative platform that takes a stance against hate and discrimination." 

That same year, the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted the country's first-ever queer fashion show. 

"I had a transsexual [model], a straight girl, a straight guy, a homosexual, a bisexual ... all kinds of sexual orientations," Aniss Ezzedine, one of the organizers told StepFeed at the time. 

"I wanted diversity in my show." 

In 2018, nearly 100 candidates running for elections openly called for the decriminalization of homosexuality.

Beirut Pride is a "collaborative platform that takes a positive stance against hate and discrimination based on gender and sexual diversity." 

Social initiatives organized by the platform aim to denounce hate speech and violence through social initiatives. 

In 2017, Damien told StepFeed in an interview that he wanted to create a "happy" and "chill" event that would "bring people together." 

He also stressed that Beirut Pride is not an NGO, rather a collaborative platform with numerous participants from various Lebanese NGOs and the country's creative community. 

"For the first edition, we refused to work, to receive money and to collaborate with political parties and embassies. We even refused to host events at embassies and places that have a political leaning or that are somehow linked to politicians. We have also rejected corporate money, because at the end of the day, this is not a platform that needs money, it’s a platform that is funding itself," Damien said. 

In 2017, a series of events held under Beirut Pride were forced into cancellation after Islamist groups threatened to attack a scheduled parade. 

At the time, several events were canceled, including the parade. However, no one was detained at the time.