The Sudanese public order police have carried out a large-scale campaign against women wearing what it describes as “indecent dress” in downtown and Nile Street of the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

Sources confirmed to Radio Tamazuj several women were taken by the police from the Nile Street to North Khartoum police station for allegedly wearing “scandalous outfits”.

The sources said the police have summoned the girls’ parents to the police station and forced them to write out statements that they shall not dress in these outfits once again.

For her part, Ihsan Fagiri, a rights activist and the secretary general of the group “No to Women’s Oppression”, denounced the crackdown against women for oppressing and humiliating them.

She described the campaign as a violation of women’s rights.