Egypt singer jailed for 'inciting debauchery' in music video
A court in Egypt has reportedly
jailed for two years a singer who appeared in a music video in her
underwear while suggestively eating a banana.
Shaimaa Ahmed, a
25-year-old known professionally as Shyma, was arrested last month after
the video sparked outrage in the conservative country.
On Tuesday, she was found guilty of inciting debauchery and publishing an indecent film, local media said.
The video's director was also sentenced to two years in prison in absentia.
Shyma had apologised before her arrest to people who took the video for the song, I Have Issues, "in an inappropriate way".
"I
didn't imagine all this would happen and that I would be subjected to
such a strong attack from everyone," she wrote on her now-deleted
Facebook page.
Last year, Egyptian courts sentenced three female dancers to six
months each in prison after convicting them of inciting debauchery in
music videos.
Another singer is meanwhile facing trial for
"spreading provocative publicity" because she suggested that drinking
from the River Nile could make someone ill.
A lawsuit was filed
last month after video emerged showing Sherine Abdel Wahab being asked
at a concert last year to sing Mashrebtesh Men Nilha (Have You Drunk
From The Nile?).
She responded by saying "drinking from the Nile
will get me schistosomiasis" - a disease caused by a parasitic worm that
is commonly known as bilharzia.
On Monday, the Egyptian Musicians
Syndicate announced that it had decided to ban Abdel Wahab from
performing concerts in the country for two months.
BBC
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