, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information . `` These things have their ups and downs , '' Adib said . `` These laws have generally relaxed as a matter of policy . But they are still sometimes enforced . '' The Arabic Network humans rights organization said the threat of flogging was retaliation for Hussein writing critically about the Sudanese regime . However , Adib does not think his client was targeted . `` There are round-ups that they do and it is indiscriminate , '' he said . `` I do n't think she was targeted specifically . They attack public and private parties and groups . They are called ` morality police ' and she was just a victim of a round-up . '' U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called flogging `` against the international human rights standards . '' He said he would take every effort to protect his staff member . However , Hussein resigned from her position with the United Nations to avoid the immunity she would have received , Adib said . Hussein said she will stand firm that she did nothing wrong . CNN 's Umaro Djau ,
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The lawyer for the woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that Sudan deemed indecent called the law `` degrading . '' Lubna al-Hussein was told she had trousers considered too tight and a blouse too transparent . `` They ought to stop it , '' Nabil Adib said on Thursday . `` It is quite unnecessary and degrading . It is harassment . '' Lubna Al Hussein -- who writes for a newspaper and , until recently , worked for the media department of the U.N. mission in Sudan -- was arrested , along with 18 other women on July 3 . At the time of her arrest , she said , she was wearing pants , a blouse and a hijab or headscarf . Police accused Hussein of wearing trousers that were too tight and a blouse that was too sheer , she said . Watch more about the case '' A hearing on the case has been scheduled for Tuesday . Adib , the lawyer , seemed confident that the court would drop the case . The indecent clothing charge has only one punishment under Sudanese law -- 40 lashes in public