Egyptian court jail singers over 'insults and debauchery'

Egyptian courts have jailed two singers for seemingly tame behaviour deemed threatening to society in a country growing increasingly repressive on all fronts.

Egyptian court jail singers over 'insults and debauchery'

Egyptian courts have jailed two singers for seemingly tame behaviour deemed threatening to society in a country growing increasingly repressive on all fronts.

The famous singer Sherine Abdel-Wahab was given six months over a joke which suggested the Nile River is polluted, which prosecutors used to accuse her of insulting the state.

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