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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
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- September 8, 2009
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Sudan: No flogging
KHARTOUM -- A woman journalist was convicted Monday of public
indecency for wearing trousers, but she was spared a sentence of
flogging. A defiant Lubna Hussein said she would not pay a $200 fine
and would take a month in prison instead to protest Sudan's
draconian morality laws.
The 43-year old journalist has set out to challenge the police
and courts since her arrest in July by insisting the case go to
trial, aiming to embarrass the Khartoum government with the
publicity. Her prosecution -- and the prospect that she could get
the full sentence of 40 lashes -- drew an international outcry.
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