The Christian police crackdown on young women wearing trousers or short skirts follows an order from the commissioner of Juba county, the capital of southern Sudan.

Most of the women, said to be in their late teens and 20s, were rounded up as they left Catholic mass in Juba on Sunday, 24 July 2009.

A Sudanese court on Wednesday, 27 July 2009, adjourned the case of a woman journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing “indecent” trousers, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences.

The judge deferred the case to Tuesday after Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who works for the left-wing Al-Sahafa newspaper and for the media department of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, waived the immunity given to UN workers.

Meanwhile, a Saudi man Mazen Abdul-Jawad, 32, arrested over a TV sex boast could face the death penalty, lawyers said.

I wish female dress code to be only the most problem in/for Sudan and many other places to quarrel for!

Journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein