{"id":88713,"date":"2026-02-17T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/88713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:17:09","slug":"kenya-ghana-probe-russian-man-over-secret-filming-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/88713\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Ghana Probe Russian Man Over Secret Filming of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Kenya and Ghana are set to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">investigate\u00a0reports<\/a> that a Russian man secretly filmed sexual encounters with women in both countries and posted the footage online without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>The media identified him as a self-styled &#8220;pick-up artist&#8221; who allegedly used camera-equipped sunglasses, though officials had not confirmed this detail. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ghana<\/a> said the man had likely left the country.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kenyan officials<\/a>\u00a0described the case as a serious form of gender-based violence and directed agencies to act urgently, including through international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana and Kenya both have strict cybercrime laws prohibiting the non-consensual exchange of intimate images, with penalties of up to 25 years in Ghana and two years in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/00320185:4d51f8dc475a264a8518714de25d2399:arc614x376:w614:us1.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"376\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(file photo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Kenya and Ghana are set to\u00a0investigate\u00a0reports that a Russian man secretly filmed sexual encounters with women&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[63,83,265,321,262,79,268,80,362,96,261,264,263,266,325,3479],"class_list":{"0":"post-88713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-events","11":"tag-east-africa","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ghana","14":"tag-governance","15":"tag-kenya","16":"tag-legal-and-judicial-affairs","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-trade","21":"tag-travel","22":"tag-west-africa","23":"tag-women-and-gender"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116085223850359258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}