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| Sudan frees trouser woman after one day in jail |
| 2009-09-09 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A Sudanese woman jailed for wearing trousers deemed indecent in a landmark court case was freed on Tuesday after the country's journalist union paid a $209 fine on her behalf, the head of the media body said. Lubna Hussein was convicted on indecency charges on Monday in a case that has attracted worldwide outcry, and was ordered to pay a fine or face a month in jail, but was spared a harsher penalty of 40 lashes. "She came out of prison. We paid the 500 pound ($200) fine," Mohedinne Titawi, president of the union, told AFP. Hussein was imprisoned on Monday after she refused to pay the fine imposed earlier the same day by a Khartoum court for wearing trousers deemed indecent. She could have faced one month in jail. |
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