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A famous Egyptian belly dancer has been in prison. A court in Cairo, Egypt Sama el-Masry to three years behind bars. It also her 300,000 Egyptian pounds, which is about $18,500. Ms El-Masry was by the police in Egypt in April. Police her with immorality after she posted videos on the video-sharing platform TikTok. The videos her performing various belly dances. Egypt has recently to crack down on social media posts. Egypt's Public Prosecution office Ms El-Masry of posting immoral pictures and videos on her social media accounts. It said she guilty of breaking Egypt's morals because the videos "sexually suggestive".

Sama el-Masry 42 years old. As well as a belly dancer, she is also an actress and in three successful movies. One of the movies was about the unfair treatment of female media workers. It a lot of debate in Egypt about the rights of women in the workplace. She also a lot of criticism in the past for videos on YouTube about her political views. One of the videos former US President Barack Obama for his policy towards Egypt. A women's rights lawyer in Egypt Ms El-Masry. She said: "Our conservative society is with technological changes which have a completely different environment and mindsets."