{"id":27059,"date":"2009-09-07T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/07\/a-woman-in-the-sudan-has-done\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:51:15","slug":"a-woman-in-the-sudan-has-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/a-woman-in-the-sudan-has-done\/","title":{"rendered":"A woman in the Sudan has done the absolutely worst thing a woman can do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She wore pants.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Sudanese woman has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for &#8220;dressing indecently&#8221; by wearing trousers, her lawyers say.<\/p>\n<p>Lubna Ahmed Hussein did not want to &#8220;give the verdict any legitimacy&#8221; by paying the fine of about $200 (\u00c2\u00a3122), her lawyer, Nabil Adib, told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hussein, a journalist in her 30s, could have been given up to 40 lashes.<\/p>\n<p>Before the verdict, she had said she wanted her trial to become a test case for women&#8217;s rights, correspondents say.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hussein had resigned from her job at the UN, which would have given her immunity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8241894.stm\">More here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She wore pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[286],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-72r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}