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Egyptian Pop Star Arrested For Sexually Suggestive Music Video

Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
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A pop star named Leila Amer was arrested in Egypt after making a sexually suggestive video, according to AFP.

The detainment was supposed to last four days, a source told AFP, for “incitement to debauchery.” Her video was titled “Boss Oumek,” which means “Look at Your Mother.”

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In the video, a man watches a belly dancer as she dances around on TV in a tight red tank top and skin-tight pants and reportedly makes “obscene gestures” with her hands.

According to The Times of London, the lawyer who filed the complaint against the singer, Ahmed Mahran, called the video a “moral disaster” and a “great risk” to the country.

“These works represent an attack on society and the destruction of the state, it being an Islamic country,” Mahran said.

It marks the second such arrest in less than a month in the country. Pop singer Shaimaa Ahmed — who goes by the name of Shyma — was arrested and sentenced to two years behind bars after making a video for her song “I Have Issues.” In the clip, she eats a banana, apple, and taco provocatively in her underwear in front of a classroom full of men.

On Monday, her sentence was reduced to one year after an appeal.