A 24-year-old Rwandese, Liliane Mugabekazi will face two years in prison for public indecency after she attended a concert wearing dress that was ‘too revealing’.
Mugabekazi was detained on August 7 after wearing a see through dress to a concert by popular French musician Tayc eight days earlier.
“Rwanda Police reminds the public that nudity, public indecency and serving alcohol to underage children is punishable by law. We urge parents to educate and protect their children from these acts,” the Rwanda police tweeted.
The discovery outraged some Rwandans, but government officials, including former Justice Minister Johnston Busingye, endorsed it.
In a televised appearance last week, Rwandan police spokesman John Bosco Kabera criticised “immorality and vulgarity among young people.”
Some Rwandans were outraged by the arrest, but Busingye, supported it.
“The current issue of our young men and women who drink and drug themselves unconscious and appear in public literally naked is unpleasant,” Busingye, Rwanda’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, tweeted.
A 20-year-old woman was detained in March for “public drunkenness and indecent assault” after a video of her laying on the ground in an intoxicated stupor went viral on social media.
Campaigners have strongly criticised the East African country’s human rights record, accusing President Paul Kagame’s regime of repressing any dissent.