Khartoum, 04 Aug-(ANA)-The trial of a Sudanese woman charged with wearing "indecent" clothing is due to resume in the capital, Khartoum.
After an initial hearing last week journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein left her job at the UN which would have given her immunity from prosecution.
Ms Hussein, who claims she was arrested for wearing trousers, said she wanted to carry on with the trial because she wanted to get the law changed.
Under Sudanese law she could face 40 lashes if she is found guilty.
Ms Hussein invited more than 500 people to the initial hearing on 29 July.
"I wish to resign from the UN, I wish this court case to continue," she told a packed courtroom.
She was arrested in a restaurant in the capital with other women earlier this month for wearing "indecent" clothing.
She said 10 of the women arrested with her, including non-Muslims, each received 10 lashes and a fine.
Ms Hussein and two other women asked for a lawyer, delaying their trials.
Under a 2005 peace deal between the mainly Muslim north and the largely Christian and animist south, Sharia law is not supposed to be applied to non-Muslims living in the capital.
Ms Hussein says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.(ANA)
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