This is the country where women in
miniskirts are sometimes abused by men without any repercussions, so seems to
me they have a problem with women who fail to conform to their expectations.
21 year old Ugandan pop singer
Jemimah Kansiime, who performs under the stage name ‘Panadol wa Basajja’
(Medicine for Men), is facing up to ten years in
jail due to the content of a music video she made which is
being described as pornography.
Uganda ratified an anti-pornography
law last year which human rights groups railed against, because of its loosely
defined definition for pornography and which is now being used to hunt this
singer down.
Jemimah has been arrested and already
spent five weeks in jail before she could post bail. The video, ‘Ensolio
Yange’, has been described by law makers in Uganda as obscene and vulgar and
has led to her being charged under the new law.
Her manager Didi Mugisha, who was
also arrested, pled guilty and was let off with a fine of 200,000 Ugandan
shillings ($67). Jemimah pled not guilty, and would stand trial for ‘wilfully
and unlawfully producing, trafficking, importing, selling, and abetting
pornography’. She faces up to ten years in jail if convicted.
The video portrays Jemimah in a
bikini covered in foam, and whilst it’s pretty risqué, thinking that merits
jail is pretty ridiculous.
Something tells me if it was a man
appearing with scantily clad ladies in his video probably no action would be
taken.
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