By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 9:07 PM on 13th July 2009
A group of Sudanese women diners face up to 40 lashes - for wearing trousers.
The women have been accused of dressing 'indecently' while dining at a popular restaurant in Khartoum, the capital.
Up to 30 police stormed the building without warning and arrested those wearing trousers, 13 women in all.
Some have pleaded guilty - so they could ‘get it over with - and received 10 lashes.
Others though have not admitted their 'guilt' and could subsequently receive 40 lashes if tried and convicted by a court.
One of them, journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, told how the group of policemen stormed into the building without warning and arrested all the women wearing trousers.
'I was wearing trousers and a blouse and the ten girls who were lashed were wearing like me, there was no difference,' Ms Hussein told the BBC's Arabic service.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1199441/Sudan-women-sentenced-40-lashes--daring-wear-trousers-public.html#ixzz0LDdjneO7&C
Last updated at 9:07 PM on 13th July 2009
A group of Sudanese women diners face up to 40 lashes - for wearing trousers.
The women have been accused of dressing 'indecently' while dining at a popular restaurant in Khartoum, the capital.
Up to 30 police stormed the building without warning and arrested those wearing trousers, 13 women in all.
Some have pleaded guilty - so they could ‘get it over with - and received 10 lashes.
Others though have not admitted their 'guilt' and could subsequently receive 40 lashes if tried and convicted by a court.
One of them, journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, told how the group of policemen stormed into the building without warning and arrested all the women wearing trousers.
'I was wearing trousers and a blouse and the ten girls who were lashed were wearing like me, there was no difference,' Ms Hussein told the BBC's Arabic service.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1199441/Sudan-women-sentenced-40-lashes--daring-wear-trousers-public.html#ixzz0LDdjneO7&C
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