This video says about itself:
Sudan woman whipped including in the face while police laugh–Warning Graphic images
14 Dec 2010
Amenesty International say Article 152 – moral codes relating to dress, allow women and even girls to be charged for wearing trousers.
From Al Jazeera:
Women’s day event denied permission in Sudan
It is unclear why permission was denied though March 8 event had been held without incident for the past eight years.
Last updated: 09 Mar 2014 15:02
Sudanese authorities have rejected permission for an International Women’s Day event in Khartoum, despite President Omar al-Bashir’s vow that freedoms should be respected.
The women in the capital were told on Sunday that they needed additional authorisation from a government commission handling voluntary activities but that was just a delaying tactic, said Fahima Hashim, director of the Salam Centre for women’s rights.
“We didn’t get the permission” from state security agents for Saturday’s planned event, she said.
The March 8 event – marked around the world when women are recognised for their achievements – had been held without incident for the past eight years at Khartoum’s Nubian Club, Hashim told AFP.
Hashim said it was unclear why approval was denied, but it might be connected with the larger size of this year’s event.
“We had more than 30 groups joining us,” she said.
The day-long event typically features exhibitions, forums, films and concludes with a party.
In January, al-Bashir appealed for a political and economic “renaissance”, including political freedom, in the country ravaged by armed insurrection and political turmoil.
Hashim said his renaissance was just “a lot of talk.”
COMMUNISTS from six countries issued a call at the weekend for a campaign of solidarity with the Sudanese Communist Party and the staff of its banned newspaper Al-Midan. Party representative Rashid Alsheikh told a meeting in London of parties from Britain, Iran, Greece, Cyprus and Bangladesh that all copies of the paper had been confiscated by the Sudanese regime’s security forces from the beginning of January: here.
This is so backward! It’s hard to believe this happens. Fortunately it got in to the international media.
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Yes, and I hope this will increase the pressure on the regime in Sudan to stop policies like this.
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This is insane!!! If we do not stand up for women and girls, who will. I have long stopped believing that big organizations will make such a difference. It’s the energy and choices of the little people who can turn things around if we’re brave enough. Heart breaking!!!!! I am making comfort boxes for little children here in south Africa who have to testify in court as we have the highest child rape rate in the world and are desperately trying to end this. Would your readers maybe like to be part of showing love to these brave survivors? Here is a link to what I do, you can chose if you want to publish this? http://cvheerden.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/going-to-court/
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Thanks for your link!
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thanks for caring!
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All the best for you, your blog and women in South Africa!
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SUDAN: A judge sentenced a Christian woman today to 100 lashes and then to hang for apostasy — the renunciation of a religion.
“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” Judge Abbas Mohammed al-Khalifa said, calling her by a “Muslim name.”
But she insisted on her Christian name and that she had never been of the Islamic faith.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d872-World-in-Brief-150514#.U3UW2Ch9l34
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Sudanese teachers protest militia killings
Basic schoolteachers in Kutum in North Darfur, Sudan went on strike Monday, demanding that the government provide security against attacks from militiamen. The militiamen have beheaded seven teachers since last year. Secondary school teacher Salah Ahmed Adam was the latest to lose his life in a government-backed militia beheading on Sunday.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/05/wrkr-s05.html
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Protesting Sudan port workers teargassed
Port workers in Sudan were arrested while protesting outside their union congress.
The 40 cargo dock workers were attacked with batons and teargas, and were then incarcerated for a period of three hours, until the union congress came to an end.
They are demanding the removal of the leadership of the Cargo and Dockworkers Association. The union chairman has been in office for 40 years, and, other than his removal, workers wanted a review of the union’s budget and improvement of its services.
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Sudan medics strike for bonuses
Medics in Central Darfur, Sudan went on strike November 8 demanding payment of their bonuses outstanding for four months. Doctors employed in Zalingei, Garsila, and Nierteti in Central Darfur are owed SDG350,000 (US$57,330). The doctors have the support of their patient’s relatives, insofar as they are calling on the health ministry in the state to improve health services, hire more medical staff and provide more affordable medicines.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/11/13/labo-n13.html
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Saturday 16th April 2016
posted by Morning Star in World
SUDANESE students protested for a third day yesterday against government plans to sell off Khartoum University’s historic building.
The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) reported that hundreds of students took to the streets to defend the “citadel and symbol of higher education” that is Sudan’s only public university.
It said they were met with “brutal repressive violence” from the security forces and government supporters.
“The university premises are besieged by the security forces and fighting between the students and the police is taking place in the corridors of the faculties.”
The SCP said President Omar al-Bashir’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated National Congress Party (NCP) government was pursuing an International Monetary Fund dictated austerity policy of mass privatisation.
“The policy is aimed at reducing government support to education and healthcare to zero,” the SCP statement said.
The party said the government was facing growing opposition to its policies, with 90 per cent of the population below the poverty line.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-81cd-Sudan-Students-keep-up-protests-against-uni-building-sale#.VxJcmXra44A
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EU gaat geld geven aan Sudanese dictator om vluchtelingen tegen te houden
http://www.doorbraak.eu/eu-gaat-geld-geven-aan-sudanese-dictator-om-vluchtelingen-houden/
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