"Whip me if you dare," was Lubna Hussein's defiant message to judges in Sudan, where the former journalist was arrested for the crime of wearing trousers. Hussein soon attracted international attention as a symbol of women's oppression in countries with strict interpretations of Islamic law.
She was arrested at a restaurant in Khartoum in 2009 under restrictive decency laws, beaten in a police van and held with 12 other trouser-wearing women who had also been arrested. Ten of the women pleaded guilty and were given 10 lashes and fined, but Hussein asked to go to trial. As . . .
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