A 24-year-old Rwandan woman, Liliane Mugabekazi who was arrested on August 7 after attending a concert wearing a sheer dress has been charge...
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A 24-year-old Rwandan woman, Liliane Mugabekazi who was arrested on August 7 after attending a concert wearing a sheer dress has been charged to court for indecent dressing.
Photo of Liliane who was at the concert by a popular French musician, Tayc a few days ago had trended online. For her “shameful" clothing, she faces up to two years in jail for “public indecency", prosecutors said Thursday.Liliane Mugabekazi was arrested on August 7 after she attended a concert by popular French musician Tayc eight days earlier, wearing a sheer dress.
“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 suspected to have committed public indecency," the spokesman for the prosecution, Faustin Nkusi, told AFP, adding that the court would announce on Tuesday whether she would receive bail.
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“The current issue of our young men and women who drink and drug themselves unconscious, appear in public literally naked is objectionable," tweeted Busingye, who is now Rwanda’s ambassador to Britain.
“I support the efforts… to address it." In a TV interview last week police spokesman John Bosco Kabera rebuked what he called “immorality and indecency among young people."
“This problem is escalating… you find an individual wearing only a shirt only… without pants or shorts," he said. “These people then go to public places dressed like that, with clothes that look like nets."
When the programme host asked him if “such people did not have a right to dress as they please," he responded: “The first right is to dress well, not dressing indecently." In recent years many Rwandans have fallen foul of the country’s strict indecency laws.
In March, police arrested a 20-year-old woman for “public drunkenness and indecent assault" after a video of her lying on the ground in an alcoholic stupor circulated on social media.
The case was held in camera.
The Law Determining Offenses and Penalties in Rwanda, Article 143, stipulates that “Any person who performs an indecent act in public, commits an offense. Upon conviction, he/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than six months and not more than two years”.
The case has caused public outrage on social media with many condemning the government for violating women’s rights, while others argued for ‘more decent dressing’ in public. - Online Sources
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