Police Beat Women Opposing Sudan Dress Code Trial
• APSudanese police fired tear gas and beat women protesting outside a
Sudanese court during the trial of a female journalist accused
of violating the Islamic dress code by wearing trousers in public.Police moved in swiftly and dispersed about 50 protesters, mostly women, who were supporting Lubna Hussein, a former U.N.
worker facing 40 lashes on the charge of ''indecent dressing.'' Some of
the women demonstrators wore trousers in solidarity with Hussein while
others wore more traditional dress.
Her was the Obama Administration's thoughts on the matter five days ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/07/30/world/international-uk-sudan-darfur-sanctions.html