woman to get 40 lashes for wearing trousers

[Tortington]

here

Was she wearing them with the wrong colour boots?

Sorry, gotta joke when the story is so grim and nought we can do about it, anyway.

God. Well done her for generating publicity about this.

Gosh she's a very brave lady- facing 40 lashes instead of 10 so that she can raise awareness.

Talked to my sister about this - she recently came home after 6mo in 'The Toumb'. She could wear trews (though no sleeveless tops etc); it is the Sudanese Muslim women who can't. But this is the city that jailed a teacher for calling the class bear Mohammed.

Lashing is a terrible punishment. I wish something could be done to stop this. 40 lashes will rip her back apart. It's inhumane.

i posted this and then fecked off and forgot!

yes it it - horrible and tucked away on teh bbc site

Reading about this I 'm wondering whether its actually more about the woman being a journalist and them finding something to use against her.

It's inhumane, she is incredibly brave bringing this into the public eye to raise awareness knowing the likely outcome will be 40 lashings.

It's an awful, awful punishment. Just cruel.