'My dress My Choice' Lady Jailed in Rwanda Over Indecent Dressing
A youthly aged woman may now have to spend 2 years in Jail after she was detained in Rwanda for donning indecent attire in public.
Christine Juma 
A source privy to this publication revealed that Liliane Mugabekazi was detained on August 7 after showing up in a revealing dress to a concert by well-known French artist Tayc eight days earlier.
"She attended the concert while wearing clothes that reveal her private parts... clothes that we call shameful," prosecutors said, accusing her of committing a "serious crime".
"It is on these serious grounds that we ask the court to remand Mugabekazi for 30 days.
According to Rwandan regulations She is suspected of committing public indecency, said the prosecution's spokesman, Faustin Nkusi, who also said the court would decide on Tuesday whether to grant her bail.
Some Rwandans expressed outrage upon hearing of the arrest, but government officials, including former justice minister Johnston Busingye, supported the action.
The current issue of our young men and women who drink and drug themselves unconscious, appear in public literally naked is objectionable," tweeted Busingye, who is now Rwanda's ambassador to Britain.
"I support the efforts... to address it," he noted.
Last week, police spokesman John Bosco Kabera condemned what he called "immorality and vulgarity among young people" in a television appearance.
"This problem is escalating... you find an individual wearing only a shirt only... without pants or shorts," he said.
"These people then go to public places dressed like that, with clothes that look like nets."
Meanwhile, in Kenya the issue is different. In November 2014, a section of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi to send a message to men to cease harassing women because of the way they dress.
women on the streets of Nairobi protesting over the stripping of Women. PHOTO FILE
The protests were in response to the most recent instance, in which several men accused a woman of wearing "indecent" clothing and forced her to strip naked in the capital. Last week's incident, which was caught on camera, sparked fury on social media with the hashtag #mydressmychoice.
Protesters marched through downtown carrying placards that read "My dress, my choice" while others donned mini-skirts, the same attire the unidentified woman wore when she was attacked. Some men wore dresses to show their support.
Earlier this year in May, some married women in Imo State, Nigeria protested against female students in tertiary institutions in Owerri. They claimed that these students were exploiting their "indecent clothes and huge buttocks" to snatch their husbands.
The women walked through female dormitories, advising the female students not to wear lewd clothing or prepare to be punished.
“If you break any of the rules, you will pay the sum of N10, 000 {Ksh. 2785.85} to us. (If it is) more than once, you will pay double of that,” a woman who appeared to be a leader of the protest declared to the students in one of the female hostels in Owerri.
