Crackdown on tight trousers cancelled

[Flamethrower]

Crackdown on tight trousers cancelled
Reuters | Thursday, 09 October 2008
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LOOSEN UP: A police investigation into women wearing tight trousers in South Sudan has been cancelled at the behest of the president.

South Sudan's president shut down a police investigation that saw scores of young women arrested for "disturbing the peace" by wearing tight trousers.

The women were arrested over the past week by police who said they suspected them of belonging to youth gangs known for drinking, fighting and public nudity.

But government officials, including the south's gender minister, said they were angry at the way the women had been targeted and treated after arrest.

President Salva Kiir had ordered a "serious investigation" into the police crackdown, said a government minister.

Kiir also ordered the immediate release of any woman arrested under the operation in the south's capital Juba, and said there were questions over its legality, Southern Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong added in a statement.

Police arrested more than 35 women Sunday night alone, angering bystanders by the way they pushed them into two trucks.

The deputy police commissioner of Juba County, Raiman Lege, said they were disturbing the peace by wearing trousers that were too tight. The group was freed Monday without charge after appearing in court.

Sudan's semi-autonomous south generally has a much more relaxed approach to women's dress than the country's Muslim north, with which it fought a two-decade war that was ended by a 2005 peace deal.

[tragic]

It's the least of the problems Sudanese women face, even if you don't count Darfur. That such a ridiculous thing could happen gives you an idea of what it's like.

[Elf1]

Jeez what would they do if the had Cheerleaders.....

[NTT]

C'mon Sheik Yepoms, do something !! The women of Sudan are counting on ya brother.

[GIGS20]

Bastards, next thing you know they'll be letting them wear Short Shorts......

Hang on......... That's not a bad thing!