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Subject: Sudan - Women Wearing Pants Are Flogged in Public
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The
Associated Press
July
14, 2009
SUDAN - WOMEN WEARING PANTS ARE
FLOGGED IN PUBLIC
The police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the capital, Khartoum,
and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers, one of those arrested
said Monday. The women were detained Friday by officers of the public order
police, which enforces Sudan’s
strict Islamic law in public places. One of those arrested, Lubna Hussein, a
journalist, said she was challenging the charges, which can be punishable by up
to 40 lashes. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” she said.
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