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Interfaith: Home / Blog article: Tight trousers ‘disturb the peace’ in Sudan
October 9, 2008Tight trousers ‘disturb the peace’ in Sudan
by David Masters
More than 30 young women in south Sudan were arrested this week for wearing tight trousers.
The arrests - part of a crackdown on youth gangs in the South Sudan’s capital, Juba - prompted outrage from the Sudanese government.
Police in the region said local officials ordered a ban on ‘bad behaviour’ and on importing dress codes from ‘illicit cultures’.
They arrested the young women on the basis that they were ‘disturbing the peace’.
Local eye witnesses said the women were thrown into police trucks like animals.
Mary Kinden Kimbo, gender minister, said police had abused their authority and violated the rights of the women they arrested.
The women concerned have now been released without charge.
President Salva Kiir has launched a ’serious investigation’ into why the police crackdown targeted women in trousers.
In the predominantly Christian south traditional values are still very important.
The region is still suffering the after-effects of decades of war against the Muslim majority north.
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