More lashes for wearing trousers
Breaking news from Reuters in Sudan:
Two Sudanese women were today sentenced to 20 lashes and fined for wearing trousers, weeks after a similar case sparked worldwide controversy.
The two women were arrested at the same party as Lubna Hussein, a former journalist who was also charged with wearing trousers and publicised her case as part of a campaign against Sudan’s public order laws.
Judge Hassan Mohamed Ali sentenced each woman to 20 lashes and a fine of 250 Sudanese pounds (€73) in Khartoum East court today. The women’s supporters told journalists the punishment, often carried out immediately after a conviction, was postponed after the women launched an appeal…
The two women, one aged 25, the other 27, both of them Muslim, would not give their names to journalists. Lawyers and supporters at the trial also said they would not release the names as the women came from conservative families.
