Lubna al-Hussein

Lubna Ahmed Hussein el (* Sudan ) is a Sudanese journalist, which works in their country against discrimination against women because of their clothes by the criminal law, and the Sharia.

Hussein is among a group of 13 women who had been arrested in early July 2009 in Khartoum by the religious police, because they had worn as Muslim women in a restaurant pants. This was seen against the background of the current in the north of the country Islamic Sharia law as a violation of paragraphs 152 of the Sudanese Criminal Code. The Al Sagana quick Court continued two days later set a sentence of 10 lashes and a fine of 100 euros converted. Ten of the women accepted the punishment, which was enforced thereupon.

Hussein and two other women lodged a complaint. Hussein made ​​the case known by inviting more than 500 politicians, diplomats and media representatives to their process.

On September 7, Hussein was sentenced to a fine of 500 Sudanese pounds (equivalent to 146 euros ). It refused to pay the fine, and should therefore take a four-week prison sentence. During the trial, 150 women demonstrated against the dress code and to support Hussein before the Court, some of which also wore trousers and about 40 were arrested.

Hussein was released on September 8, 2009, after a Sudanese journalists group had paid without their knowledge and against their will the punishment.

Hussein is committed to the abolition of Section 152 of the Criminal Code, which imposed on the party up to forty lashes and a fine of " violating the public morality or wears indecent clothing ". Because this section have been whipped by women and girls in Sudan because of their clothing thousands after Hussein's information within the past two decades. She argues that the section infringes both the Sudanese constitution and against the Sharia.

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  • Prison instead of corporal punishment in the pants Process, World, September 7, 2009
  • Tristan McConnell: Journalist Lubna Hussein prepares to test Sudan 's Islamic law in court, Times Online, August 4, 2009
  • Journalist
  • Feminist
  • Sudanese
  • Born in the 20th century
  • Woman
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