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Women accused of wearing trousers in Sudan

By Moustafa Youssef

A Sudanese woman arrested in July for flouting Sudan’s decency laws for wearing trousers has been spared the expected Islamic punishment of 40 lashes. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein was instead ordered to pay a fine of about $200 following a court decision in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
Scores of female supporters rallied behind Lubna shouting ‘freedom’. When [...]