{"id":2979,"date":"2025-07-09T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/belly-dancer-arrested-in-egypt-for-provocative-art-form\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:30:04","slug":"belly-dancer-arrested-in-egypt-for-provocative-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/belly-dancer-arrested-in-egypt-for-provocative-art-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Belly dancer arrested in Egypt for &#039;provocative&#039; art form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-09 16:30:03<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A belly dancer has been arrested in Egypt on charges of offending public morality.<BR><br \/>\nLinda Martino, an Italian-Egyptian dancer with over two million followers on Instagram, is facing a year of hard labour after she was detained at Cairo airport and accused of &#8220;using seduction techniques and provocative dancing to incite vice&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nMartino&#8217;s arrest follows the arrests of other famous belly dancers in Egypt in recent times as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi&#8217;s hardline government takes a dim view of the dancing &#8211; even though it remains popular in the country.<BR><br \/>\nShe is accused of appearing in &#8220;indecent clothing, deliberately exposing sensitive areas of her body, in clear violation of public morals and social values&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nMartino has defended belly dancing as &#8220;an art&#8221; and has asked the Italian consulate to get involved in the case.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;I am a dancer and the videos on which the accusations are based are normal &#8211; they show a dance performance that does not go against or violate public morality.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why Egypt is doing this, but I am also an Italian citizen and at this point I am asking for the Italian consulate to get involved.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-09 16:30:03 A belly dancer has been arrested in Egypt on charges of offending public morality. Linda Martino, an Italian-Egyptian dancer with over two million followers on Instagram, is facing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}