Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 28, 2009 18:56:44 GMT
A 16 year old Christian girl has received 50 lashes in Sudan for wearing a knee length skirt. The judge ordered her sentence to be carried out immediately without even notifying her parents. Sudan law forbids this kind of punishment to under 18's and the government states that there should be more leniency to other faiths from other parts of the country than the strict Sharia law around Khartoum, where the girl and her family were visiting.
The question for us is - why isn't the BBC reporting it?
I knew when I saw the article in the Mail that there would be no mention of it on the BBC even before I looked.
Why do the BBC need reporters all around the globe if they don't report the pertinent stories that we need to know about and address?
The question for us is - why isn't the BBC reporting it?
I knew when I saw the article in the Mail that there would be no mention of it on the BBC even before I looked.
Why do the BBC need reporters all around the globe if they don't report the pertinent stories that we need to know about and address?
Fifty lashes for the teenage girl who wore an 'indecent' knee length skirt in Sudan
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:06 AM on 28th November 2009
A girl of 16 was given 50 lashes after a judge ruled her knee length skirt was indecent.
Silva Kashif was punished without her family being told after she was arrested while walking alone near her home in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Her mother, Jenty Doro, said: ‘I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried.
‘She is just a young girl but the policeman pulled her along like she was a criminal. It was wrong.’
The Omdurman market in Khartoum (file picture), one of the city's many markets. Silva Kashif was arrested as she walked to a market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week
She said she would sue the police and the judge because her daughter is a Christian and underage.
The law states that under-18s should not be given lashes.
Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by a female police officer in front of the judge.
'I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried ... People have different religions and that should be taken into account' she said.
Khartoum is governed by Islamic sharia law. But although Miss Kashif is living there she is originally from the south of the country, which is not.
The government is supposed to be working to soften the impact of sharia for southerners living in Khartoum.
Her lawyer, Azhari al-Haj, said: ‘She was wearing a normal skirt and blouse, worn by thousands of girls. They didn’t contact a guardian and punished her on
the spot.’
The case will add fuel to a debate already raging over Sudan's decency laws after this year's high-profile conviction of Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.
Hussein, a former journalist who used her case to campaign against Sudan's public order and decency regulations, is touring France to publicise her book about the prosecution.
She had faced the maximum penalty of 40 lashes but was given a lighter sentence.
Arrests for indecency, drunkenness and other public order offences are not uncommon in Khartoum which is governed by Islamic sharia law.
Earlier this year Sudanese UN official Lubna Hussein was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:06 AM on 28th November 2009
A girl of 16 was given 50 lashes after a judge ruled her knee length skirt was indecent.
Silva Kashif was punished without her family being told after she was arrested while walking alone near her home in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Her mother, Jenty Doro, said: ‘I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried.
‘She is just a young girl but the policeman pulled her along like she was a criminal. It was wrong.’
The Omdurman market in Khartoum (file picture), one of the city's many markets. Silva Kashif was arrested as she walked to a market near her home in the Khartoum suburb of Kalatla last week
She said she would sue the police and the judge because her daughter is a Christian and underage.
The law states that under-18s should not be given lashes.
Doro said Khashif was taken to Kalatla court where she was convicted and punished by a female police officer in front of the judge.
'I only heard about it after she was lashed. Later we all sat and cried ... People have different religions and that should be taken into account' she said.
Khartoum is governed by Islamic sharia law. But although Miss Kashif is living there she is originally from the south of the country, which is not.
The government is supposed to be working to soften the impact of sharia for southerners living in Khartoum.
Her lawyer, Azhari al-Haj, said: ‘She was wearing a normal skirt and blouse, worn by thousands of girls. They didn’t contact a guardian and punished her on
the spot.’
The case will add fuel to a debate already raging over Sudan's decency laws after this year's high-profile conviction of Sudanese U.N. official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.
Hussein, a former journalist who used her case to campaign against Sudan's public order and decency regulations, is touring France to publicise her book about the prosecution.
She had faced the maximum penalty of 40 lashes but was given a lighter sentence.
Arrests for indecency, drunkenness and other public order offences are not uncommon in Khartoum which is governed by Islamic sharia law.
Earlier this year Sudanese UN official Lubna Hussein was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.