Lubna al-Hussein, a journalist Sudan, had been stopped by police on July 3 in Khartoum on charges of wearing pants.
She and 13 other women went with his pants in a public restaurant and in violation of Article 152 of the Penal Code of Sudan. For this "little" disobedience is a penalty of forty lashes and a fine. But Lubna al-Hussein has demanded a trial and invited 500 journalists and local politicians.
"I'm not afraid of being whipped, I'm ready to endure more than forty lashes, provided everyone knows what happens in Khartoum."
While the process took place behind closed doors, where she was ordered to pay a fine of $ 209, many women, most wearing the trousers, gathered to show their support for the journalist.
"will not pay, I go to jail!" Said Lubna al-Hussein. So it was conducted in prison for a month, but the deposit has been paid.
This woman had the courage to resist the law to embrace something that is important to her and this is something that we have forgotten how to do. We have everything, so I do not think what is happening around us. We forget to criticize because politics does not interest us. Lubna al-Hussein, we want to prove that you can get something through our actions even though we're only a stranger. You do not need to be imported for a person to change something. Although Lubna failed to repeal this law has accomplished something. Now the whole world knows how to live in Sudan and his fight for the 'emancipation of women is certainly not finished.
Elisa N.
She and 13 other women went with his pants in a public restaurant and in violation of Article 152 of the Penal Code of Sudan. For this "little" disobedience is a penalty of forty lashes and a fine. But Lubna al-Hussein has demanded a trial and invited 500 journalists and local politicians.
"I'm not afraid of being whipped, I'm ready to endure more than forty lashes, provided everyone knows what happens in Khartoum."
While the process took place behind closed doors, where she was ordered to pay a fine of $ 209, many women, most wearing the trousers, gathered to show their support for the journalist.
"will not pay, I go to jail!" Said Lubna al-Hussein. So it was conducted in prison for a month, but the deposit has been paid.
This woman had the courage to resist the law to embrace something that is important to her and this is something that we have forgotten how to do. We have everything, so I do not think what is happening around us. We forget to criticize because politics does not interest us. Lubna al-Hussein, we want to prove that you can get something through our actions even though we're only a stranger. You do not need to be imported for a person to change something. Although Lubna failed to repeal this law has accomplished something. Now the whole world knows how to live in Sudan and his fight for the 'emancipation of women is certainly not finished.
Elisa N.
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