Sudan separates the sexes

KHARTOUM Sudan has decreed strict sexual segregation in public in line with the government's puritanical vision of an Islamic…

KHARTOUM Sudan has decreed strict sexual segregation in public in line with the government's puritanical vision of an Islamic society.

Under a decree approved by the state parliament yesterday, men and women cannot sit together in public and men may not watch women playing sports. At public gatherings, theatres, cinemas and so on, a curtain must divide the men from the women.

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