TAKE ACTION: End repressive laws targeting women in Sudan
On 10th July 2009, thirteen women who were arrested by police in a restaurant in Khartoum, Sudan, and charged with violating the public dress code face being flogged up to 40 lashes. The arrests took place when police forces stormed the restaurant and arrested women diners dressed in trousers which the police regarded as ‘indecent’. The women were charged under article 152 (Indecent and Immoral Acts) of the 1991 Penal Code. Ten of the women pleaded guilty, out of fear and terror, and had already received 10 lashes (two of them under the age of 16), and those who pleaded not guilty face up to 40 lashes if convicted. Click here to read more and see how you can take action against this repressive law.
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