A lady might spend time in jail for “shameful dressed” at a performance. Her attire was deemed to be inappropriate.
After showing up in a see-through black dress to a performance in Kigali, Rwanda, where the French singer Tayc was performing, Liliane Mugabekazi, 24, was detained on August 7 and charged with obscenity.
“She attended the concert while wearing clothes that reveal her private parts… clothes that we call shameful,” prosecutors said, accusing her of committing a “serious crime”.
“It is on these serious grounds that we ask the court to remand Mugabekazi for 30 days.
She is believed to have engaged in public immorality.
After being detained for 12 days, Mugabekazi has finally been released on bond. This came after her detention drew criticism from Rwandans and the world community, and an internet petition garnered about £8,500 to cover her legal expenses.
Rwanda’s ambassador to the UK, Busingye Johnston, backed her arrest.
He tweeted: “The current issue of our young men and women who drink and drug themselves unconscious, appear[ing] in public literally naked is objectionable.”
Police spokesman John Bosco Kabera criticised “young people’s immorality and indecency” in a TV interview.
The difficulty is getting worse… You come across someone in only a shirt, without shorts or pants,” he remarked.
“These people then go to public places dressed like that, with clothes that look like nets.”
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