(Non-Muslims) can now drink if they wish, Muslims can renounce their religion and not get the death penalty, women don’t need permission from men to travel, and they’ve banned female genital mutilation.
This is in line with similar changes incurring on other nations like Saudi Arabia, where women can now also drive. And last year Sudan also removed laws that dictated how women should dress.
Comments closedThe reforms come after long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir was ousted last year following massive street protests.
The current government is an uneasy mixture of those groups which ousted Mr Bashir and his former allies in the military, who ultimately staged a coup against him.
“We [will] drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan,” Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari said.
“We are keen to demolish any kind of discrimination that was enacted by the old regime and to move toward equality of citizenship and a democratic transformation,” he said.
The laws were initially approved in April but the BBC’s Mohamed Osman in Khartoum says they have only now taken effect.
Source: BBC
