{"id":376038,"date":"2017-11-21T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=376038"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:04:45","slug":"egypt-singer-held-for-inciting-debauchery-in-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/egypt-singer-held-for-inciting-debauchery-in-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt singer held for ‘inciting debauchery’ in music video"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Egyptian singer has reportedly been detained for a week after she appeared in a music video in her underwear while suggestively eating a banana.<\/p>\n
Shaimaa Ahmed, a 25-year-old known professionally as Shyma, was arrested by Egyptian police on Saturday on suspicion of “inciting debauchery”.<\/p>\n
It came after the racy video for her song, I Have Issues, sparked outrage in the socially conservative country.<\/p>\n
She has apologised to people who took the video “in an inappropriate way”.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
In the video, the singer appears in a classroom with several young men.<\/p>\n
Standing in front of a blackboard bearing the phrase “Class #69”, she proceeds to eat an apple, banana and some crisps in a sexually suggestive manner.<\/p>\n
The scene is interspersed with pictures of her wearing lingerie.<\/p>\n
“Shyma presents a lesson in depravity to youths,” wrote the Youm al-Sabaa newspaper after the video was released.<\/p>\n
On Monday, two days after her arrest, the public prosecutor’s office ordered that Shyma’s detention be extended for a week, Youm al-Sabaa reported. Arrest warrants were also issued for the directors of the video, it said.<\/p>\n
Last year, Egyptian courts sentenced three female dancers to six months each in prison after convicting them of inciting debauchery in music videos.<\/p>\n
Another singer is meanwhile facing trial for “spreading provocative publicity” because she suggested that drinking from the River Nile could make someone ill.<\/p>\n
A lawsuit was filed 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 commonly known as bilharzia.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Egyptian singer has reportedly been detained for a week after she 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 by Egyptian police on Saturday on suspicion of “inciting debauchery”. It came after the racy video for her song, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":376071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[14787,14785],"yoast_head":"\n