<p> An Egyptian court Wednesday jailed the sixth woman in a week over TikTok videos, deeming the clips in which she dances and lip-syncs to popular songs to be "inciting debauchery", a judicial source said.</p>.<p>The sentencing of Manar Samy to three years imprisonment is the latest such ruling against popular female social media users in Egypt over content posted to the video-sharing app TikTok and Instagram.</p>.<p>Samy was arrested earlier in July on charges of "inciting debauchery, immorality and stirring up instincts" through her online videos, according to a prosecution statement.</p>.<p>Prosecutors found her videos -- in which she dances and lip-syncs to popular music -- to be "offensive to public decency" and to have been posted "with the aim of committing prostitution".</p>.<p>According to the judicial source, the verdict can be appealed and "includes a fine of 300,000 Egyptian pounds ($19,000)".</p>.<p>The sentence can be suspended if Samy pays a bail of 20,000 pounds, the source added.</p>.<p>Wednesday's ruling came days after another court sentenced five female social media influencers, Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others, to two years each in jail over content posted to TikTok.</p>.<p>In their short videos on the app, the young women appear doing satirical lip-syncs, comedic skits, dance videos and voice-overs -- content that is widely popular around the world on the mobile app.</p>.<p>Hossam was arrested in April after posting a short clip on social media saying that girls could make money by working with her, a message that was interpreted as a call for prostitution.</p>.<p>In May, authorities arrested Adham, who had posted satirical videos on TikTok and Instagram.</p>.<p>The targeting of female influencers rekindled a heated debate in the deeply conservative Muslim country over what constitutes individual freedoms and "social norms".</p>.<p>The clampdown is however not unusual in Egypt, where several belly dancers and pop singers have been targeted in recent years over online content deemed too racy or suggestive.</p>.<p>Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced belly dancer Sama al-Masry to three years in jail for inciting "debauchery" on social media over posts deemed sexually suggestive.</p>.<p>Activists and legal experts have long criticised the crackdown on individual freedoms under loosely worded offences.</p>.<p>"The charges of spreading debauchery or violating family values are very loose... and its definition is broad," rights lawyer Intissar al-Saeed previously told AFP.</p>.<p>Rights groups say more freedoms have been curtailed in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in 2014.</p>.<p>Egypt has in recent years enforced strict internet controls through laws allowing authorities to block websites seen as a threat to national security and to monitor personal social media accounts with over 5,000 followers.</p>
<p> An Egyptian court Wednesday jailed the sixth woman in a week over TikTok videos, deeming the clips in which she dances and lip-syncs to popular songs to be "inciting debauchery", a judicial source said.</p>.<p>The sentencing of Manar Samy to three years imprisonment is the latest such ruling against popular female social media users in Egypt over content posted to the video-sharing app TikTok and Instagram.</p>.<p>Samy was arrested earlier in July on charges of "inciting debauchery, immorality and stirring up instincts" through her online videos, according to a prosecution statement.</p>.<p>Prosecutors found her videos -- in which she dances and lip-syncs to popular music -- to be "offensive to public decency" and to have been posted "with the aim of committing prostitution".</p>.<p>According to the judicial source, the verdict can be appealed and "includes a fine of 300,000 Egyptian pounds ($19,000)".</p>.<p>The sentence can be suspended if Samy pays a bail of 20,000 pounds, the source added.</p>.<p>Wednesday's ruling came days after another court sentenced five female social media influencers, Haneen Hossam, Mowada al-Adham and three others, to two years each in jail over content posted to TikTok.</p>.<p>In their short videos on the app, the young women appear doing satirical lip-syncs, comedic skits, dance videos and voice-overs -- content that is widely popular around the world on the mobile app.</p>.<p>Hossam was arrested in April after posting a short clip on social media saying that girls could make money by working with her, a message that was interpreted as a call for prostitution.</p>.<p>In May, authorities arrested Adham, who had posted satirical videos on TikTok and Instagram.</p>.<p>The targeting of female influencers rekindled a heated debate in the deeply conservative Muslim country over what constitutes individual freedoms and "social norms".</p>.<p>The clampdown is however not unusual in Egypt, where several belly dancers and pop singers have been targeted in recent years over online content deemed too racy or suggestive.</p>.<p>Last month, an Egyptian court sentenced belly dancer Sama al-Masry to three years in jail for inciting "debauchery" on social media over posts deemed sexually suggestive.</p>.<p>Activists and legal experts have long criticised the crackdown on individual freedoms under loosely worded offences.</p>.<p>"The charges of spreading debauchery or violating family values are very loose... and its definition is broad," rights lawyer Intissar al-Saeed previously told AFP.</p>.<p>Rights groups say more freedoms have been curtailed in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who took office in 2014.</p>.<p>Egypt has in recent years enforced strict internet controls through laws allowing authorities to block websites seen as a threat to national security and to monitor personal social media accounts with over 5,000 followers.</p>