In Saudi Arabia, Canadian women who went out were escorted. These people were spouses of Bell Canada workers. They would be taken out with a driver and they couldn't go anywhere without that male driver with them. Also, if they weren't totally buttoned up to the neck, they were accosted by the people. It wasn't the religious police or anything, and thankfully they never got to that stage, but even the people frowned on it.
I was curious about whether it is imbedded in their law or not, and obviously it is.
My understanding of the use of rape--and it seems to match your testimony--is that it's really effective when the public's view of what happens to that victim is that it's partially, if not completely, the victim's fault, and thus adultery. It troubles me to even say this, but in Canada we had a judge recently accuse a rape victim of encouraging it by her dress. When you can have that happen in a country as free as ours, you can imagine how these victims are really terrorized in the restrictive nature of the country they're in.
Has the current Government of Sudan taken any action at all to hold the perpetrators accountable? Do the victims have any way at all of getting any form of redress?