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 الحكومة الفرنسية تستنكر جلد النساء السودانيات وتدعو الخرطوم لاحترام العهود الدولية
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France condemns flogging of Sudanese women...
July 12, 2009 (PARIS) — The French government today deplored reports of flogging Sudanese women over “indecent clothing” and called on Khartoum to respect international conventions in this regard.
Eric Chevallier, spokesman of the French foreign ministry “France strongly condemns whipping of 10 Sudanese women announced yesterday. We are particularly concerned by information that many others could be sentenced to similar sentences,” Eric Chevallier the spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
“France, which is fighting for the abolition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and violence against women, calls on the Sudanese authorities to stop the proceedings against these people” he added.
Yesterday Lubna Hussein, a journalist and a public information officer at the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) told Sudan tribune that she was one of nine girls taken by the Public Order Police (POP) on Sunday from a ballroom in an area east of Khartoum for wearing trousers.
The arrests took place under the Criminal Penal Code which states that anyone wearing “indecent clothing” shall be punished with no more than 40 lashes or a fine or both.
Ahead of her were four other girls including non-Muslim Southerners under the age of 18 who were sentenced to 10 lashes and a fine of 250 Sudanese pounds.
Hussein and two other women were spared the sentence because they asked for the presence of their lawyers and their cases are still pending.
The French official urged Sudan “to sign and ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women”.
North Sudan is governed by Islamic Shari’a law which imposes several restrictions on public appearance of women.
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http://www.sudaneseonline.com/spip.php?article31807
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