Sudanese woman to be flogged for wearing pants from al-Arabiya reports that a journalist who chose to wear pants and is threatened with 40 lashes from the authorities is sending out 500 inivations to the event to expose horrific human rights violations.
Leftist Lubna al-Hussein, who works at the Sudanese newspaper al-Sahafa and with the U.N. mission in Sudan, could be sentenced to 40 lashes for dressing up "indecently."
On July 3 she was arrested with several other girls at a celebration hall that had 300-400 guests. "Two cops came in and asked all girls who wear pants to follow them to the police station," Hussein, who wears the hijab, head scarf, told Al Arabiya TV.
They took Hussein and another 12 girls, amongst them several Southern Sudanese, and 10 of them were instantaneously lashed 10 lashes at the police station.
The remaining girls, al-Hussein and another two, were referred to the court, but the trial date has not been set yet.
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