Women Beaten Over Trousers
Aug. 8th, 2009 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraKHARTOUM (Sudan) - SUDANESE police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a Sudanese court Tuesday during the trial of a female journalist accused of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.
Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former UN worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of 'indecent dressing.'
Some of the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein.
(Read the rest at The Straits Times)
Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former UN worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of 'indecent dressing.'
Some of the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein.
(Read the rest at The Straits Times)