A video filmed by an outraged onlooker has lent a voice and a face to the oppression of women in Sudan. The video, filmed by an outraged onlooker has sparked demonstrations of angry women in Sudan and led to an investigation of the beating, in which the woman was forced to kneel on the street and flogged by two policemen, one of whom can be seen chuckling on the video. In addition to pants, the woman was wearing an ankle length dress and was covered to the wrists. Any reasonable observer would have concluded that she was modestly dressed and thoroughly covered.
so far, the Sudanese government has come down far harder on the protestors than on the police who flogged the unbidentified woman. The New York Times reported that 52 women were arrested.The New York Times reported as follows on the situation in Sudan.
The women, part of the "No to Subjugating Women Initiative," were sitting down and holding banners when they were arrested, Reuters reported. They shouted, "Humiliating your women is humiliating all your people," as the police dragged them away.
As the news agency explained, "Floggings carried out under Islamic law are almost a daily punishment in Sudan for crimes ranging from drinking alcohol to adultery. But vague laws on women's dress and behavior are implemented inconsistently."
The only thing that is unusual about the beating in Sudan is that it was captured on film and reported. Sadly enough, it is a telling and average glimpse of life under Shaaria law.
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