{UAH} Death sentence for raped teen in Sudan named world’s worst case for women’s rights

Mayimuna, /Afuwa Kasule./ Semuwemba/ Katerega/ Edward Mo irundrua/ Ikanos/ Annet Kobby

The Death sentence passed on 19 year old Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein by the sharia courts in Sudan has been voted as the world's worst court judgement for women's rights this year. Corrollarily,  the campaign we organised and sustained over a lengthy period to save Noura's life is also regarded as one the best in the entire history of Amnesty International and of international human rights advocay as a whole. Against the odds, we managed to save Noura's life, although she is still serving a 5 year sentence for stabbing her rapist husband to death, the charges having been reduced from murder to manslaughter. Noura Hussein expects to be free in less than a year's time. I am very proud of the role I played in saving Noura's life. From the bottom of her heart. Noura thanks everybody who played a role however insignificant, in saving her life.

Bobby

Death sentence for raped teen in Sudan named world's worst case for women's rights

Author: tajiri maskini Category: News December 05, 2018

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The death sentence for a 19-year-old girl in Sudan who murdered her husband after he tried to rape her was named on Tuesday as the world's worst court ruling for women's rights this year.

Noura Hussein was sentenced to death in May after a Sharia court, which follows Islamic religious laws, found her guilty of premeditated murder for stabbing her husband, whom she was forced to marry.

"This decision sends a very dangerous message to society, and specifically to women who suffer sexual violence," said Blakeley Decktor – a lawyer at women's rights organization Women's Link, which gives out the awards.

"The court clearly demonstrates a failure of understanding the context where Noura defended herself and the violence she suffered," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Hussein said her husband and three of his male relatives raped her six days after their wedding ceremony because she refused to have sex with him. Marital rape is not a crime in the predominantly Muslim African nation.

After international outcry, the appeal court in Khartoum charged Hussein with manslaughter and overturned the death sentence in June.

The Gender Justice Uncovered Awards, in its tenth year, recognizes decisions that affect the rights of women and girls around the world, in both good and bad ways. A jury of three experts from Spain, Kenya and Argentina picked the winners.

Spain was awarded second place for a ruling that cleared five men of the gang rape of a teenager at the San Fermin bull-running festival in Pamplon, handing out sentences for the lesser charge of sexual abuse.

El Salvador was also recognized for sentencing a rape victim who miscarried to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide and Mexico for a ruling that a women who wanted her child's father to pay child support had upset his current wife.

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