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Teenager who killed alleged rapist husband appeals

Publish date: 16 July 2018
Issue Number: 782
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Sudan

Lawyers for the Sudanese teenager who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her have filed an appeal in the Supreme Court to demand her unconditional release, notes a BBC News report. Judges last month scrapped the death sentence imposed on Noura Hussein (19) and sentenced her to five years in prison. Judges also ordered the payment of the equivalent of $18 600 to the family of her late husband, Abdulrahman Mohamed Hammad. The original sentence had caused outrage, and international celebrities like Naomi Campbell and Emma Watson backed an online campaign to demand her release. In May, a court had sentenced Hussein to death by hanging, following her conviction for the premeditated murder of her husband. She said her husband had recruited some of his cousins who allegedly held her down as he raped her. When he allegedly attempted to do the same the following day she lashed out at him with a knife and stabbed him to death.

Full BBC News report

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