Although it seems that the Sudanese government are not encouraging the demonstrations, nor were they pushing for her to be tried. I think they might be a bit embarrassed by it but, as one of the Sudanese lawyers pointed out, their legal system is based on the British one where the judiciary cannot be instructed by the politicians but are independant, only deciding on whether a case does or does not break the word of the law, and then passing sentence. So once someone decided there was a case to answer the government could not intervene.
I don't know whether to be disgusted that she was found guilty, or impressed that the judge found her guilty of only the minor charge, and passed the minimum sentence. Mainly the former I think, with a touch of the latter.
For a reasonable current news report see this BBC one.
I think her lawyer is probably right too - the appeal process could take more time, and the longer it lingers the more chance that the calls for her to be retried by a 'tougher' court will get louder compared with any reasonable ones. This is the way with most fundamentalists of any sort - shout loud enough and the still small voice of reason will be stifled. And I do include Christian fundamentalists in this sweeping statement - but I really do not mean any personal offence to you.
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Date: 2007-12-01 11:13 pm (UTC)Although it seems that the Sudanese government are not encouraging the demonstrations, nor were they pushing for her to be tried. I think they might be a bit embarrassed by it but, as one of the Sudanese lawyers pointed out, their legal system is based on the British one where the judiciary cannot be instructed by the politicians but are independant, only deciding on whether a case does or does not break the word of the law, and then passing sentence. So once someone decided there was a case to answer the government could not intervene.
I don't know whether to be disgusted that she was found guilty, or impressed that the judge found her guilty of only the minor charge, and passed the minimum sentence. Mainly the former I think, with a touch of the latter.
For a reasonable current news report see this BBC one.
I think her lawyer is probably right too - the appeal process could take more time, and the longer it lingers the more chance that the calls for her to be retried by a 'tougher' court will get louder compared with any reasonable ones. This is the way with most fundamentalists of any sort - shout loud enough and the still small voice of reason will be stifled. And I do include Christian fundamentalists in this sweeping statement - but I really do not mean any personal offence to you.