Rwanda Lady Faces Two Years In Jail For ‘Shameful’ Dressing In Public

“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.”

In a TV interview last week police spokesman John Bosco Kabera rebuked what he called “immorality and indecency among young people.”

“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.”

When the programme host asked him if “such people did not have a right to dress as they please,” he responded: “The first right is to dress well, not dressing indecently.”

In recent years many Rwandans have fallen foul of the country’s strict indecency laws.

In March, police arrested a 20-year-old woman for “public drunkenness and indecent assault” after a video of her lying on the ground in an alcoholic stupor circulated on social media.

The East African nation’s rights record has been sharply criticised by campaigners, who accuse President Paul Kagame’s government of crushing any dissent.