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Sudan - Trouser-wearing woman spared lashes

Global Arab Network - - Adam Turner

Monday, 07 September 2009 14:46

Lubna Hussein, who faced 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public is given a fine but spared the lashes by a court in Sudan.
Hussein was found guilty of indecency for wearing trousers in a case that has attracted worldwide attention, but she will be spared lashes, an official who attended the trial said.

Shouting "freedom! freedom!" and waving banners, supporters rallied around Hussein, a former journalist who was working for the United Nations at the time of her arrest, as she made her way to the courthouse in Khartoum on Monday.

Hussein's case is being seen as a test of Sudan's Islamic decency regulations, which many women activists say are vague and give individual police officers undue power to determine what is acceptable clothing. (Reuters)

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