Laughing Brutality in Woman's Flogging Video Chills Sudan

Flogging of Sudanese women in Khartoum from Anne Enke on Vimeo.

The horror of flogging in Sudan reared its head this week in a video that’s no less riveting in its inhumanity than the details of Lubna Hussein’s indencency hearings that went on for months in 2009. For new readers at Anne of Carversville, I became very involved in Lubna’s case in the summer of 2009, after being contacted by a loosely-confederated group of concerned men in the region.

My closest ally in that 2009 group returned to Facebook this week and contacted me with the video that frankly causes me nightmares. I have played this video over and over in my head awake and asleep.

There aren’t words to express my revulsion at the administering of ‘justice’ Sudan style to this young woman and the 40,000 more that will probably be flogged in 2010, based on Sudanese court records of 40,000 floggings in 2008.

Nesrine Malik wrote about the flogging for The Guardian today: Sudan’s public order laws are about control, not morality.

After being pulled down repeatedly on YouTube, with complaints coming fast and furious from the believers in flogging episodes like this one, the video is now alive. It is also on CNN and Al Jazeera, says my friend, although I can’t find it in the international editions.

I will share my colleague’s words, written from the region for Anne of Carversville readers:

This video clip depicts the scene of a Sudanese girl receiving blows whip all over her body at a police station in Khartoum this week. A wave of condemnation by the Sudanese on the Internet and newspapers concluded that what happened was exceeding the legal punishment and amounted to physical torture and severe humiliation.

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Lubna Hussein's Outfit Described By Court in Detail: Conservative, Khaki Trousers Become "Tight and Flashy'

Lubna Hussein’s Outfit: a provocative outfit through which it shows all parts of the body of the woman’s charms, and shows the underwear and revealing her hairThe Sudan Tribune has printed Sudanese Judge Mudathir Al-Rasheed Sid Ahmed in the case of Lubna Ahmed Hussein.

We have a closeup photo of the “offending outfit”, thanks to the London Times.

The following “evidence” and witness testimony provide the foundation for Lubna Hussein’s conviction in the honorable court of Sudanese Judge Ahmed’s Mudathir Al-Rasheed Sid Ahmed:

1) Judge Al-Rasheed Ahmed’a Ruling: The hard evidence has clearly indicated that the defendant was wearing a revealing outfit and a flagrant breach of public morality as the complainant stated in his statement on page (2) of the record.

2) Witness Testimony: “Defendant was wearing tight pants and blouse with short and transparent sleeves with openings on the sides and composting pants and her head was exposed because she was not wearing scarves”.

3) Witness Testimony: “Defendant was wearing pants and a blouse and the pants were tight and flashy and shows from underneath it the thighs and the outline and the form of the underwear and the color of her panties that can clearly be seen which is beige in color and short shirt with sleeves up to her elbow and it is transparent and light reflecting everything inside it within such as the shape and form of the bra and that the start of her chest is showing because the blouse opening and it also has two holes on the side lengthwise from top to bottom, and there is a gap between the confluence of the shirt so that they appear able to view the navel and the underwear of the accused”.

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Angelina Jolie Is Deadly Serious about Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir

Last fall, Tina Brown’s new website The Daily Beast delivered a left-hand compliment to Angelina Jolie, “She’s Actually Smart”, based on Jolie’ comments at a Council of Foreign Relations meeting on Darfur.

The Darfur Case

While the tabloids — and even USA Today — have Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sleeping in separate houses on the 24-acre Seacroft Long Island estate, where Jolie is filming the movie “Salt”, and more than one woman around the world is secretly hoping that the relationship will falter, Jolie was busy last week, writing in TIME magazine, calling for the ouster of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Seacroft estate; via UK Daily MailSmart Sensuality woman Jolie is furious that al-Bashir, the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant on seven counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity, kicked out 16 international aid groups from Sudan.

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