Mujer sudanesa arrestada por llevar pantalones. La condena puede llegar a 40 latigazos. Si se declara culpable solo recibira 10 latigazos y una multa de 250 libras sudanesas.
La ley es diferente alli y hay que respetarla por supuesto.
Those who pleaded guilty – in order to ‘get it over with’ – received 10 lashes and a fine of 250 Sudanese pounds (US$100).
Ms Hussein and several others, who have not admitted their guilt, are subsequently facing 40 lashes if they are tried and convicted.
Now Ms Hussein, a journalist who also works for the United Nations has printed 500 invitation cards and sent out e-mails inviting people to her hearing.
She told the BBC she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could face punishment over a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.
She said: ‘I want to change this law, because this law doesn't match in constitution.
‘It is important that people know what is happening,’ Ms Hussein is reported to have written on the invitations she circulated.
Sudan is a country split along religious lines with Islam dominant in Khartoum and the north and Christianity in the south.
Several of those punished were from the south, although non-Muslims are not supposed to be subject to Sharia law, even in Islamic areas.
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It was in Khartoum that British primary school teacher Gillian Gibbons, 55, spent a week in jail in 2007 after her class named a teddy bear Mohammed.
She faced 40 lashes for insulting Islam but was freed after the intervention of two British peers.
Sudan was ravaged by a two-decade civil war that killed 1.5million of its 39million people, only to plunge straight afterwards into the horror of the bloodshed in the western region of Darfur.
Two million people have fled their homes and more than 200,000 have been killed.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague this year issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
It is not the only country to enforce laws on dress.
In Iran, the religious police frequently launch crackdowns on indecency, rounding up hundreds of women for wearing a ‘bad hijab.’
And a boutique owner was recently ordered to saw the breasts off the mannequins in his shop because they were ruled ‘indecent'.
In a dramatic example of Sharia law in Somalia, a 13-year-old girl was stoned to death last year for adultery after Islamist militants took control of the city of Kismayo.
In fact, Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow had been raped by three armed men, but was arrested when her aunt took her to a police station to report the crime.
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