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Wed 08 Aug 2009Sudan defers 'trousers' hearing
KHARTOUM – Police used teargas yesterday to disperse protesters rallying in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public, a case that has become a public test of Sudan’s indecency laws.
Lubna Hussein, a former journalist and UN press officer, was arrested with 12 other women during a party at a Khartoum restaurant in July and charged with being indecently dressed.
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