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Between the arrest and the trial, Hussein began to publicize the case by printing 500 invitation cards and sending emails with the subject line "Sudanese journalist Lubna invites you again to her flogging tomorrow". Hussein has used her legal battle as a public platform for attacking article 152, on
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for women's rights in Sudan. Hussein, who considers herself to be a good Muslim and was wearing loose-fitting pants covered by a long blouse, contends that the case "is not about religion, it is about men treating women badly." She stated that she wanted to change the law on behalf of all the women
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On 3 July 2009, the Public Order Police entered the Kawkab
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commission created in
October 2019. She stated that, as many women had been killed or thrown dead into the Nile, 70 women and men had been raped, and three women rape victims had committed suicide after the massacre, women should be represented as commission members.
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the grounds that the way it is applied in the Sudan is neither constitutionally, nor dogmatically allowed by
Shariah law. Her efforts have led to a public show of solidarity by women in the region, but also violence by Islamic extremists.
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job. Al-Hussein stated that she wished to resign her job, and test the law. If found guilty, she declared her intent to appeal her case to the upper court and even the constitutional court, in an effort to change the law.
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of Sudan. She argued that
Article 152, which allows the flogging or fining of anyone who "violates public morality or wears indecent clothing" without defining "indecent clothing", itself violates both the 2005 Interim
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Muslim, media worker and activist who came to international attention in July 2009, when she was prosecuted for wearing trousers. Her case became a
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them pleaded guilty immediately, were given ten lashes each, and released. Hussein and two other women refused this offer and insisted on a trial.
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Lubna Al-Hussein, Sudanese
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excerpts from an interview ... aired on Al-Mihwar TV on
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394:"When I think of my trial, I pray my fight won't be in vain"
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