فضية لبنى فى صحف العالم من سيدنى الى سياتل (تتورطون)

Quote: Trial adjourned for Sudanese woman who faces flogging for wearing trousers A Sudanese judge has adjourned the trial of Lubna Hussein, the young woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public. By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi Published: 1:50PM BST 04 Aug 2009 Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein: Trial adjourned for Sudanese woman who faces flogging for wearing trousers Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein Photo: AFP/GETTY Riot police fired tear gas and beat scores of women protesting outside the Khartoum court in support of Miss Hussein. Witnesses reported a short burst of gunfire as the authorities tried to disperse the crowd. Inside the courtroom, Miss Hussein, a former journalist and United Nations press officer, was on Tuesday due to learn whether she would be found guilty of committing an indecent act and sentenced to 40 lashes with a camel hide whip. Related Articles * Sudanese women flogged for wearing trousers * Woman in Sudan faces flogging for wearing trousers * Maldives flogs women as punishment for sex outside marriage * French students killers may face whole life in jail * Man jailed for rape is cleared 'because his trial was too long' But judges again adjourned their verdict until September 7, apparently to consult over whether Miss Hussein's job would grant her immunity. "They want to check with the UN whether I have immunity from prosecution," she told Reuters outside the Khartoum court. "I don't know why they are doing this because I have already resigned from the United Nations. I think they just want to delay the case." Miss Hussein, who is in her 30s, was arrested in a Khartoum restaurant with 12 other women by Sudan's Public Order police for wearing " indecent clothing". Ten of the women - some of them Christians from southern Sudan to whom such laws should not apply - accepted a punishment of 10 lashes each. But Miss Hussein's defiant stand against the charge has gathered wide publicity and has embarrassed Sudan's strict ruling regime. "I am not afraid of being flogged. I will not back down," she told The Sunday Telegraph in her first interview with a Western newspaper at the weekend. "I want to stand up for the rights of women, and now the eyes of the world are on this case, I have a chance to draw attention to the plight of women in Sudan." Miss Hussein was wearing a pair of loose green slacks, a blouse and a thin headscarf when she fell foul of the Public Order police. She was deemed to have contravened Article 152 of Sudanese law, which punishes with 40 lashes anyone who "commits an indecent act which violates public morality or wears indecent clothing". But women's groups have argued that the law gives no clear definition of indecent dress, leaving the decision of whether to arrest a women up to individual police officers. "If I'm sentenced to be whipped, or to anything else, I will appeal," she said on Monday. "I will see it through to the end, to the constitutional court if necessary. And if the constitutional court says the law is constitutional, I'm ready to be whipped not 40 but 40,000 times". Miss Hussein has argued that wearing trousers does not contravene Sharia, the Islamic law in operation in Muslim northern Sudan. She defiantly appeared in court last week wearing the same clothes in which she was arrested. She printed 500 invitations to supporters, human rights activists and journalists to attend the hearing.