Sudan's transitional government announced Friday it overturned a moral policing law that criminalised revealing clothing for women and drinking alcohol and moved to dissolve the country's former ruling party, fulfilling two major demands from the country's pro-democracy protesters.
Rights groups say the Public Order Act targets women and is a holdover from the three-decade rule of toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
"This law is notorious for being used as a tool of exploitation, humiliation & violation of rights," Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok tweeted in reference to the overturned law.
"I pay tribute to the women and youth of my country who have endured the atrocities that resulted from the implementation of this law."
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