Female Journalist, Lubna Ahmed Hussein, who was jailed for a month by a Khartoum court for wearing "dressing indecently" and refusing to pay the a fine of about $200 (£122) was released after one day in prison.

Before the verdict, Ms Hussein had said she wanted her trial to become a test case for women's rights. She resigned from her job at the UN, which would have given her immunity. During the sentencing hearing on Monday dozens of people gathered outside the court - some supporting Ms Hussein, others objecting to her stand. Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Mohedinne Titawi, of the Sudanese Union of Journalists, said the union had paid the fine to secure her release.

According to Najlaa Al Maahi, one of Hussein's legal team, with whom I spoke after the trial, the proceedings were hastily conducted and the defence was not allowed to make its case. The general sentiment was that the guilty verdict and the sentence, a fine of £130, had been decided in advance and the trial was merely a formality. The goal apparently was to tar Hussein as indecent but not resort to lashing. This would leave the case against her intact, but not enact a brutal punishment while the world watched. Government supporters were hailing her conviction as a victory while their opponents saw the fine as a climb-down from the initial penalty of flogging, one which Hussein would have endured had she not challenged those who detained her.Source: Guardian

She was arrested for "dressing indecently" along with 12 other women because they was wearing trousers in a Khartoum restaurant in July. Hussein said several of the women pleaded guilty and were given 10 lashes immediately.

Sudanese law in the conservative Muslim north stipulates a maximum of 40 lashes for wearing indecent clothing.

Women in trousers are not a rare sight in Sudan but the authorities can take offence at trousers which reveal too much of a woman's shape, leading to accusations from rights groups that judgement is arbitrary.

Ten of the women arrested in July on the indecent dress charge, including Christians, were subsequently summoned by police and each given 10 lashes.

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I wonder what the supporters of this conviction would think about the women in rest of the developed world?