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 Re: عزة في هواك (Re: أحمد طه)
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Dear Ustaz Ahmed Taha,
(المسألة محتاجة إلى لافتة بهذا الحجم .. ما السودان كلو سجن كبير للنساء هو)
Thanks for the article; one of the important issues you raised is the flogging of women. It is a part of an integrated project of fundamentalists to suppress women’s rights. Flogging of women whether they belong to the elite class or to the marginalised groups is one way to achieve this project. I wish if you forced yourself and stayed with the crowd, not for curiosity but to feel more the humiliation, unfairness and pain those women endure! Al ahfad had people to highlight their case, Sudan Human Rights Organisation in UK; Cairo among others defended them and protested against the public order code. But the problem never stopped since its official adoption in 1996 till now because I said it is one part of their project and women continue to be first victims of POC. The law is practiced daily in some courts under different names, the public order code court or community security (amn el mujtama’), victims of these courts are both women and men, majority of the marginalised groups, most of these marginalised groups are young women. Women continue to suffer without getting any defence, part of that is the fact that law itself does not allow it, and their trial are summary. The problem does not end with flogging; it continues to the stage where a criminal file of the flogged is created if they fail to pay the fine (in many cases they don’t have the money to do that) if they don’t pay the requested fine then an imprisonment sentence is issued against them.
If women are arrested Thursday, they are forced to spend the night in the police custody till Saturday waiting for the court to start its working day, all this happens while they do not have the opportunity to notify their families about their where about. Their finger ‘prints are also taken, while all those people in police and court witnessing their humiliation, what future could they have after that? It is their poverty, their gender and the mentality of discrimination in a society ruled by criminals that put them in that situation and I mainly mean here displaced and many of other marginalised groups.
Of course talking about public order code can continue for long time, but let me now deliver this modest contribution, but meanwhile I wish lawyers come and contribute in this issue.
Muna
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Muna Khugali
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