AP reports:
— “A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by the authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law. The girl, Silva Kashif, said she was arrested by a plainclothes police officer in a Khartoum market last week for wearing a skirt that fell below her knees. She was convicted of offending public morality and received 50 lashes in the courtroom. Ms. Kashif’s ordeal follows the high-profile case of Lubna Hussein, a female journalist who was sentenced to 40 lashes for wearing trousers deemed indecent.”

Translated report from Al-Arabiya:
— “Lawyer said a girl from southern Sudan and her family, Friday, 27/11/2009, said the girl whipped with 50 lashes because they wore a skirt a judge ruled it obscene, and in the latest issue highlights the application of Islamic law in Sudan.”
— “…the girl’s mother detector Silva, aged 16 years, it intends to sue the police who arrested her daughter and the judge who issued the verdict, adding that her daughter, a minor and a Christian.”
— “The Douro, which her family hails from the town of Yambio, southern Sudan, said her daughter was arrested while on the way to the market near her home in the suburb of Kalakla in Khartoum last week.”
— “She added that her little girl but the policeman pulled in the market as if it were a criminal and that this is true, and pointed out that Silva was taken to court where Kalakla convicted and punished by the police before a judge.”