{"id":5593,"date":"2020-07-14T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:24:29","slug":"egyptian-actress-charged-with-obscene-act-for-wearing-revealing-dress-at-cairo-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5593","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian actress charged with obscene act for wearing revealing dress at Cairo Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian actress is to face trial for appearing at a film festival wearing a revealing dress.<\/p>\n<p>Rania Youssef was charged with inciting \u201cimmorality and promoting vice\u201d, after a group of lawyers made a complaint to the country\u2019s chief prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old appeared at Cairo Film Festival on Thursday wearing a black leotard covered by a see-through overdress with criss-cross detailing and a large bow belt.<\/p>\n<p>Three lawyers accused her of committing an obscene act in public, \u201cinciting debauchery and temptation\u201d, and \u201cspreading vice in ways that violate established norms in Egyptian society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pictures of the star, who is known for her role in a number of popular Egyptian TV series, left social media users divided, with some calling her names and other defending her right to wear what she wants.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nEgyptian actress Rania Youssef poses on the red carpet at the closing ceremony of the 40th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF)\u00a0Credit:<br \/>\nAFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis dress and design is called \u2018I forgot my trousers while going to be honoured,\u201d wrote one Twitter user.<\/p>\n<p>Another Twitter user writing under the name Zakaria MJ frowned at the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRania Youssef is looking gorgeous,\u201d he wrote in a message in English. \u201cI don\u2019t get why everybody is mad at her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Youssef had just finished shooting for the film &quot;Aswar Aaliya&quot; (High Fences), in which she plays the role of a famous artist who is sent to prison.<\/p>\n<p>She will be tried on January 12 in a court in Cairo, where she faces up to five years if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Youssef\u2019s arrest is the latest in a long line of cases of Egyptians falling foul of the country\u2019s more religious elements.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt is a mostly conservative country with a Muslim majority. The Arab country has retained vestiges of secularism despite decades of growing religious conservatism, but Ms Youssef&#8217;s case serves as a reminder that Islamic fundamentalism still pervades society five years after an Islamist president was ousted by the military.<\/p>\n<p>An Egyptian court last year sentenced little-known singer Shyma to two years for inciting debauchery, after she appeared in a music video in her underwear suggestively eating a banana.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, author Ahmed Naji was handed a two-year prison sentence after being charged with obscenity for publishing a book with references to sex and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said he &quot;violated public modesty&quot; with his novel The Use Of Life but was soon released and his sentence was suspended following an appeal to a Cairo court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian actress is to face trial for appearing at a film festival wearing a revealing dress. Rania Youssef was charged with inciting \u201cimmorality and promoting vice\u201d, after a group of lawyers made a complaint to the country\u2019s chief prosecutor. 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