For Rania Youssef begins the coming year with an unpleasant event: On 12. January must be responsible for the 45-year-old actress in front of a court in Cairo – due to “indecent” appearance in the Public.
Youssef was on 29. November at the closing ceremony of the International film festival in Cairo in a black semi-transparent chiffon dress shown in the column on your legs. Two lawyers were subsequently refunded will not display, among other things, because of “incitement to debauchery” and “obscenity”.
“woman Youssefs appearance did not correspond to the social values, traditions and morals, and harmed thus the Reputation of the Festivals and especially to the Reputation of Egyptian women,” said lawyer Samir Sabri on behalf of the entire female part of the population.
In the case of a conviction, a prison sentence of up to five years threatens Youssef. In the predominantly conservative Egypt known women to be punished again and again for allegedly too revealingly in Public – to make even, to set an example and to Betmatik support fundamentalist forces in the country.
In the social media, the case was included Youssef different. Conservative Muslims welcomed the move by the lawyers, liberal voices condemned it and stressed that a woman have the right to wear whatever she wanted.
Youssef himself apologized: “I have worn the dress for the first Time and I made it clear that it would cause a lot of Trouble,” she said. “I stand firm to the values with which we were drawn in the Egyptian society.”
Rania Youssef was born in 1973 in Cairo. She worked as a Model before she took over in several television series roles. From her first marriage to TV Producer Mohammad Mokhtar she has two daughters. Four months after her divorce, she married an Egyptian businessman.
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