ISLAMABAD – A Swedish woman was asked to get off of a bus because she had“too few clothes” on, reported *The Independentlink*.
Amanda Hansson boarded the bus in Malmo on Friday in the midst of Sweden’sheatwave, wearing shorts and a camisole top. But she was told by the driverthat her clothing contravened the bus company’s dress code, as she wasshowing too much skin.
“I asked him what sort of sexist s**t he was trying to pull, but he justcontinued to say that I should cover myself up,” Hansson told the alocal newspaper.
The incident was reported by national media, and has prompted severecriticism from women’s rights campaigners, though the bus company was quickto state it had no policy regarding customer clothing.
Sara Mohammad, chair of Never forget Pela and Fadime, which campaignsagainst so-called honour culture and female body shaming, told *The Local*thatshe had been shocked by the bus driver’s behaviour.
“What gives a bus driver the right to decide if a woman has ‘unsuitableclothing’ on?” she said. “It was good that Amanda rejected that. I wish allwomen rejected this, whether it’s from a bus driver, or a father, or amother or an uncle, whoever it is. It’s my body. I own it.”
After the story was first reported, the local transport authority and thebus company apologised. The driver has been suspended from his post untilan internal investigation is completed.
The traffic director Linus Erixon immediately addressed the incident viaTwitter. “Something went wrong,” he wrote. “Of course people are welcome onboard our buses and trains in shorts and a camisole.”