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Guardian: Saudi Arabian women risk arrest as they defy ban on driving
[The Guardian] - "A lot of westerners don't realise that the king and the government are a lot more progressive than the people," said Saudi writer Lubna Hussein. "They have to walk a tightrope because the people may want to be modern but they don't want to be western.
Guardian: Sudan's haphazard sharia legal system has claimed too many victims
[The Guardian (blog)] - In the Lubna Hussein case, the (eventually commuted) sentence of lashing was for wearing trousers – an offence that not even the Qur'an or other sources of religious law had foreseen and legislated against. In the case of Intisar Abdullah, her lawyer
Google News: Sudan teen sentenced to stoning death
[Times of Malta] - In 2009, journalist-turned-activist Lubna Hussein waged a campaign against the law after she spent a day in jail for refusing to pay a fine for wearing “indecent trousers”. Other women arrested with her in a restaurant were whipped. Print Email. « Man
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