KHARTOUM: A well-known Sudanese woman journalist is facing 40 lashes after being accused of wearing “indecent” clothes, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences against. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who writes for the left-wing Al-Sahafa newspaper and works for the media department of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, was arrested in Khartoum last week and charged with dressing indecently. Hussein told AFP she was at a restaurant on July 3 when police came in and ordered women wearing trousers to follow them to the police station. “They took away me and 12 other young women, including southerners,” she said, referring to women from Sudan’s animist and Christian south.“Two days later, 10 of them were summoned to the police station in downtown Khartoum and given 10 lashes each,” said Hussein. The remaining three women, including Hussein, have been charged with “committing an indecent act or one which violates public morality or wearing indecent clothes.” afp
حركة العدل و المساواة السودانية
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