Sudan: Judiciary Orders Probe Into Video of Woman Being Flogged

12 December 2010

Khartoum — The Sudanese judicial authority on Sunday issued a statement announcing a probe into the manner by which a Sudanese woman was flogged as part of a punishment handed down on her, Sudan's state media said.

This week a YouTube video surfaced showing an unidentified woman in a voluminous cloak on her knees screaming and pleading in agony and pain with blue-uniformed policemen who took turns whipping her across the head and feet.

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