Sudan woman jailed for not paying trouser fine
Sudanese woman journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein was sent to jail on Monday after refusing to pay a $200 fine imposed for wearing trousers deemed “indecent,” one of her lawyers said.
“She has been taken to the women’s prison in Omdurman,” the twin city of Khartoum, Kamal Omar told AFP.
Earlier on Monday, a Khartoum court spared Hussein, who has vowed to appeal against any conviction, a whipping for wearing “indecent” trousers but instead fined her the 500 Sudanese pounds ($200).
“I won’t pay. I’d rather go to prison,” Hussein told AFP by telephone before she was taken to jail, though her lawyers said they would try to persuade her to pay up.
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