Facing the Lash ; for the Heinous Crime of Wearing Trousers, This Muslim Woman Is to Be Pinned Against the Wall of a Courtroom and Lashed 40 Times with a Camel Hair Whip. The Mail On Sunday Secretly Crossed Into Sudan to Record Her Defiant Response

Mail on Sunday › August 10, 2009

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MEDIEVAL ... brutal ... inhuman ... When the news broke that a respectable 34-year-old career woman in Sudan was to be flogged for wearing trousers, the shock waves travelled the 3,000 miles to Britain and on around the world.

As this country grapples with the problems of multiculturalism and some debate whether elements of Muslim sharia law should be incorporated into our system, the case of Lubna al-Hussein took on a new significance.

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Facing the Lash ; for the Heinous Crime of Wearing Trousers, This Muslim Woman Is to Be Pinned Against the Wall of a Courtroom and Lashed 40 Times with a Camel Hair Whip. The Mail On Sunday Secretly Crossed Into Sudan to Record Her Defiant Response

Lubna, a United Nations Press officer, lives a life of relative freedom in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. She has a wide circle of friends of both sexes but lives alone in her own comfortable villa.

Yet she faces a maximum sentence of 40 lashes if she is found guilty of indecent behaviour for wearing trousers, banned under Sudan's 1991 Indecency Act which governs women's public dress codes.

Last week, I became the first Western journalist to travel to Khartoum to speak to Lubna face-toface about her arrest, her horror as her friends were flogged for the same offence, and her growing deter...

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