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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5603)	3/1/2007 9:36:09 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

She was waiting for a bus at 8 p.m. in Tangerang, a city on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, when public order officers hauled her in because she was alone on the street after dark, was not wearing a headscarf and had a tube of lipstick in her purse. The judge, who heard Lindawati's case at a public trial in the town square last March, said that was enough to prove the mother of two was a prostitute. He sentenced her to three nights in prison. "Everything changed after that," said Lindawati, who insists she is not a sex worker. "My neighbors started avoiding me. My husband's friends stopped coming around. When word got out that I intended to file a suit against the city, I started getting threats. Simply unbelievable.