40 lashes for wearing trousers

Published: 5 August 2009 y., Wednesday
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The Sudanese women are protesting Lubna Hussein's sentence of 40 lashes for the crime of wearing trousers in public.

 

She and 12 others were arrested in a restaurant for committing an indecent act.

 

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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