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KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Sudanese female journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public in violation of the country’s strict Islamic laws told a packed courtroom Wednesday that she is resigning from a U.N. job that grants her immunity so she can challenge the law on women’s public dress code.
Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested July 3 in a raid by members of the public order police force on a popular cafe for wearing trousers, considered indecent by the strict interpretation of Islamic law adopted by Sudan’s Islamic regime.
All but three of the women were flogged at a police station two days later. Hussein and two other women decided they wanted to go to trial.
