Liliane Mugabekazi, a 24-year-old woman, is in hot water after showing up to a concert in Rwanda wearing a see-through dress.Authorities in Rwanda claim that the transparent clothing worn by Efia Odo and others in Ghana constitutes a criminal there. Rwanda is an East African nation governed by Paul Kagame.Liliane, a Rwandan, was detained on August 7 by the nation’s police force for donning what was deemed “shameful” attire.For “public obscenity,” prosecutors warned she may spend up to two years in prison.News18.com reports that Liliane Mugabekazi’s arrest on August 7 followed her attendance at a concert by well-known French artist Tayc eight days earlier.
Prosecutors claimed that she committed a “major criminal” by attending the event in “clothing that disclose her private parts…things that we label shameful.””We want the court to remand Mugabekazi for 30 days based on these significant grounds.
She might have engaged in public obscenity, “Faustin Nkusi, a spokesperson for the prosecution, told AFP that the court would decide on Tuesday whether to grant her bail.
Social media users are furious about the arrest, while members of the Rwandan government, like the former justice minister Johnston Busingye, supported it.
“The current phenomenon of our young people appearing in public literally naked after imbibing drugs and drinking oneself unconscious is unpleasant, “Busingye, who is currently Rwanda’s ambassador to the UK, wrote.
I support the initiatives taken to address it.
John Bosco Kabera, the police spokesman, criticized “youth morality and vulgarity” in a television interview last week.
“This issue is getting worse. You see someone walking about in just a shirt, no shorts or pants.
Then, wearing attire that resembles nets, these people enter public spaces,” he continued.
The first right is to dress correctly, not to dress indecently, he responded when the TV host questioned him whether “such persons did not have a right to dress as they pleased.”
Many Rwandans have recently violated the nation’s severe indecency laws.
A 20-year-old woman was detained by police in March of this year for
“public drunkenness and indecent assault” after a video of her lying on the ground in a drunken stupor went viral on social media.
