15 female students at Al-Ahfad university flogged by Sudanese police

The Sudanese police ordered a bus from Al-Ahfad University for girls, which was conveying 40 students, to stop on the roadside. The policemen took the students to a police station where 25 students were released and 15 flogged on the pretext that that they were wearing trousers. Each girl received 15 lashes.

Parents and relations of the students staged a protest in front of the police office. Dr. Kassim Badri, dean of university, protested against this treatment. He said that the bus was carrying the students from the university to their homes.

The sentences against the students were carried out before a "public order court," Al Khartoum daily said today.