A Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an “indecent” knee-length skirt, her lawyer said.

The family of Silva Kashif, 16, plans on suing police and the judge, said attorney Azhari al-Hajj who insisted that the verdict was in violation of Sudanese law because the girl is a minor.

Kashif “is a minor, not a Muslim and did not have the right to get in touch with her parents” before the verdict was served, Hajj said.

“These are violations of the law and that is why we plan on suing the police and the judge,” the lawyer added.

Kashif was strolling in a south Khartoum neighbourhood earlier this month wearing a knee-length skirt when a policeman arrested her and marched her to court. She was sentenced on November 21.

“The judge sentenced her to 50 lashes and she was immediately flogged. The whole thing lasted 30 minutes,” said Hajj, who is also a human rights activist.

Last month, a judge sentenced two women to 20 lashes for wearing trousers.

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