Egypt cuts debauchery jail term for dancer

Egypt cuts debauchery jail term for dancer

CAIRO - Agence France-Presse
An Egyptian appeals court on July 26 halved a jail term for a female dancer convicted of inciting debauchery after she featured in a controversial music video, a court official said.

Reda El-Fouly was arrested in May after wearing a revealing dress as she sang and danced in a video that went viral on the Internet.
 
In June a lower court sentenced her to one year in jail for inciting debauchery.    

That verdict was challenged, and on Sunday a Cairo appeals court reduced the sentence to six months.
 
The lower court also sentenced her dancing partner Wael El-Sediki, who directed the video, to a year in jail. He is still at large.
 
In April, an Armenian belly dancer was sentenced to six months for insulting Egypt's national flag during a performance last year.
 
The dancer, known as Safinaz, was tried for wearing a costume that resembled the tri-coloured flag during a performance last year in the Red Sea resort town of Ain Sokhna.