Description:Chapters: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein is a Sudanese media worker and activist who came to international attention in July 2009 when she was prosecuted for wearing trousers. Her case has become a cause celebre, with organisations such as the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Amnesty International issuing statements in support. Al-Hussein is a journalist who, at the time of her arrest, worked for the media department of the United Nations Mission in Sudan. She was known for her public criticism of the government of Sudan's treatment of women. The legal system of the country is based on Islamic law (sharia), and it permits judicial corporal punishment such as flagellation. The criminal law prohibits dressing indecently in public, a charge which carries a punishment of 40 lashes and a fine. According to the director of police, in 2008 in Khartoum State alone, over 40 000 women were arrested for clothing offences; it is not known how many were convicted or flogged. The full text of Article 152 in the Memorandum to the 1991 Penal Code is: 152 Obscene and Indecent Acts(1) Whoever does in a public place an indecent act or an act contrary to public morals or wears an obscene outfit or contrary to public morals or causing an annoyance to public feelings shall be punished with flogging which may not exceed forty lashes or with fine or with both.(2) The act shall be contrary to public morals if it is regarded as such according to the standard of the person's religion or the custom of the country where the act takes place. On 3 July 2009, the Public Order Police entered the Kawkab Elsharq Hall, looking for any women and gir...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2380362We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sudanese Journalists: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary. To get started finding Sudanese Journalists: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Sudanese Journalists: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary
Description: Chapters: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein is a Sudanese media worker and activist who came to international attention in July 2009 when she was prosecuted for wearing trousers. Her case has become a cause celebre, with organisations such as the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and Amnesty International issuing statements in support. Al-Hussein is a journalist who, at the time of her arrest, worked for the media department of the United Nations Mission in Sudan. She was known for her public criticism of the government of Sudan's treatment of women. The legal system of the country is based on Islamic law (sharia), and it permits judicial corporal punishment such as flagellation. The criminal law prohibits dressing indecently in public, a charge which carries a punishment of 40 lashes and a fine. According to the director of police, in 2008 in Khartoum State alone, over 40 000 women were arrested for clothing offences; it is not known how many were convicted or flogged. The full text of Article 152 in the Memorandum to the 1991 Penal Code is: 152 Obscene and Indecent Acts(1) Whoever does in a public place an indecent act or an act contrary to public morals or wears an obscene outfit or contrary to public morals or causing an annoyance to public feelings shall be punished with flogging which may not exceed forty lashes or with fine or with both.(2) The act shall be contrary to public morals if it is regarded as such according to the standard of the person's religion or the custom of the country where the act takes place. On 3 July 2009, the Public Order Police entered the Kawkab Elsharq Hall, looking for any women and gir...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2380362We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sudanese Journalists: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary. To get started finding Sudanese Journalists: Lubna Al-Hussein, Mahjoub Mohamed Salih, Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, Mahjoub Omer Bashary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.