Malawian women to protest trouser-stripping gang

democratic Malawi,” Seodi White, a lawyer and leading women’s rights activist, said in a statement. White said protesters would gather in the commercial capital Blantyre “in solidarity with the victims and to express our indignation at such barbaric treatment of mothers, wives and daughters of our country.”
Police said on Wednesday they had arrested 15 “thugs” in the capital Lilongwe, 350 kilometres north of Blantyre, for terrorising women by stripping them of their trousers or shorts and robbing them.
Until 1994, women in the deeply conservative southern African country were banned from wearing pants under the government of Kamuzu Banda. – AFP.