SUDAN NEWS ALERT: BBC - Sudan crisis: Women praise end of strict public order law

29/11/19: BBC - Sudan crisis: Women praise end of strict public order law

The BBC report that Sudan has repealed a restrictive public order law that controlled how women acted and dressed in public, and has banned the National Congress Party (NCP) for ten years.

 Human rights activist Hala al-Karib told BBC Newsday that repealing the law was a "massive step" for Sudan, but more needed to be done to end "a very discriminatory legal framework".

 The BBC’s Sudan analyst James Copnall said the application of the law underlined the divisions and tensions within Sudanese society, as authorities used it to target poorer women from the marginalised peripheries.

 The BBC note that the dissolving of the NCP means that authorities can seize its assets, with Copnall adding that “nobody other than its partisans will mourn the NCP, which is blamed for creating so much misery.”