The Sudanese woman who once faced a public flogging for wearing her pants too tight was jailed Monday for neglecting to pay a court-ordered fine, CNN reports. Lubna al-Hussein was spared the 40 lashes and issued a fine of 500 Sudanese pounds (about $206) amid an international uproar among human rights and women rights advocates because of the tight pants and a blouse that was deemed too sheer. She is refusing to pay the fine as a matter of principle. “She is now in jail,” her attorney Nabil Adib told CNN. “She refused to pay the fine as a matter of principal.” Al-Hussein will appeal her verdict in an effort to have the conservative Muslim government’s decency law declared unconstitutional, Adib said by phone from Khartoum. “We intend to file an appeal within the next three days, but we do not know how long it will take the court of appeals to decide on the case,” Adib said. “We expect it will happen in the next two to three weeks.” He said al-Hussein could be in jail for a month unless her verdict is overturned. Al-Hussein, who was arrested in July, pleaded not guilty during her one-day trial Monday, he said. She was not allowed to call defense witnesses or present a defense case, he added.”She thinks that she did not have fair trial and a conviction was wrong so she did not want to pay the fine nor let anyone else pay on her behalf,” Nadib said. Al-Hussein, a journalist who worked in the media department of the United Nations mission in Sudan, resigned from her U.N. position in order to waive her immunity as an international worker and face trial.

Tight pants and miniskirts got women in Sudan arrested. Police in Sudan are getting some heat from the government after rounding up and arresting more than 30 women because they were wearing tight pants or mini skirts. Police, in the nation’s capital Juba, say they had a right to arrest the women because they’d previously put out an order banning “bad behavior and the importation of illicit cultures.” But one female government official, Gender Minister Mary Kinden, says they overstepped their boundaries as officers and had actually intruded on their human rights. “Girls were picked up from points like in the church and were hurled into police lorries and taken to the police station, some of them were beaten up, that is why the girls were very distressed,” Kimbo told the BBC. “I am against the police taking action single-handedly to round up everybody and start beating them because that is not their job.” The local mandate ordering punishment for “bad behavior” does not specifically elaborate on what would be considered “bad”; although police believe such behavior includes women wearing clothing they classify as inappropriate. The mandate does, however, give those found guilty a sentence of three months in prison. People found guilty a second time will also be fined $283. All of the women have since been freed.

South Africa will sell ivory to Asian nations. South Africa will sell 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan, despite some concerns from environmentalists, reports CNN.  African countries with a huge supply of elephant tusks would be allowed to make a one-off sale of ivory, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) said last year. But some were worried such a say would promote smuggling and thievery, reports CNN. Wildlife experts from South Africa made a visit to the two countries last month and decided they would not try to deal to the black market and met the strict conditions on trade involving endangered species.