Sudanese Tight-pants Woman in Jail
The Sudanese woman who once faced a public flogging for wearing her pants too tight was jailed Monday for neglecting to pay a court-ordered fine, CNN reports. Lubna al-Hussein was spared the 40 lashes and issued a fine of 500 Sudanese pounds (about $206) amid an international uproar among human rights and women rights advocates because of the tight pants and a blouse that was deemed too sheer. She is refusing to pay the fine as a matter of principle. “She is now in jail,” her attorney Nabil Adib told CNN. “She refused to pay the fine as a matter of principal.” Al-Hussein will appeal her verdict in an effort to have the conservative Muslim government’s decency law declared unconstitutional, Adib said by phone from Khartoum. “We intend to file an appeal within the next three days, but we do not know how long it will take the court of appeals to decide on the case,” Adib said. “We expect it will happen in the next two to three weeks.” He said al-Hussein could be in jail for a month unless her verdict is overturned. Al-Hussein, who was arrested in July, pleaded not guilty during her one-day trial Monday, he said. She was not allowed to call defense witnesses or present a defense case, he added.”She thinks that she did not have fair trial and a conviction was wrong so she did not want to pay the fine nor let anyone else pay on her behalf,” Nadib said. Al-Hussein, a journalist who worked in the media department of the United Nations mission in Sudan, resigned from her U.N. position in order to waive her immunity as an international worker and face trial.
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