Another Fine Example Of The "Religion Of Peace", It Takes 2 To Commit Adultery But Only 1 Pays For It.
KHARTOUM — A young Sudanese woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning, an international rights group says, in a rare case under Sudan’s Islamist regime.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the case of Intisar Sharif Abdallah “presents numerous grave violations of domestic and international law”.
In a statement late Thursday it said Abdallah, who is believed to be under the age of 18, was sentenced by a judge in the Khartoum area in April and is being held in prison with her baby.
Another watchdog, Amnesty International, gave her age as 20 and said she was sentenced on May 13.
The case has received almost no coverage in Sudanese media.
Abdallah was sentenced under a penal code provision which calls for execution by stoning for married adulterers, while unmarried culprits are whipped, Human Rights Watch said.
It added that Sudan is one of only seven countries that have death by stoning as a punishment.
“Sudanese judges have sentenced several women to death by stoning in recent years, but courts have overturned all the sentences on appeal,” an HRW statement said.
“The vast majority of adultery cases and stoning sentences have been imposed on women, pointing to the disproportionate and unequal application of this law.”
The court convicted Abdallah solely on the basis of her confession after a family member beat her, HRW said, adding she did not have a lawyer or interpreter in court even though Arabic is not her first language.
Death by stoning is a penalty that violates international human rights standards, including prohibitions on torture and cruel and unusual treatment, and should be abolished, the watchdog said.
“Sudan should uphold international and African standards,” Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in the statement. “It should ban death by stoning and other corporal punishment, and revise laws that discriminate against women and girls.”
Amnesty International reported similar details of Abdallah’s case, and said family members were appealing.
“The death sentence was imposed in violation of international law standards, and an execution would violate both international and Sudanese law,” London-based Amnesty said.
Sudan practises Islamic law, which also mandates whippings for running a brothel or for “indecent” behaviour.
In 2009, journalist-turned-activist Lubna Hussein waged a campaign against the law after she spent a day in jail for refusing to pay a fine for wearing “indecent trousers.” Other women arrested with her in a restaurant were whipped.
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Unless the women was married to another it’s not adultery. But Islam isn’t the only religion that kills women for being raped. Christianity used to do the same until secular law forced its abolition, along with stoning, maiming, torturing and burning people to death for disagreeing. Christian priests used to perform abortions on women suspected of adultery, dragging them to church, stripping them and forcing them to drink a bitter potion that aborted a fetus. That is why they are now against abortion because they had that right taken away from them as well. That is the only reason the church is now against abortion. Funny how the world turns eh, and the churchs claim superior morality when in fact they are visious murdering arse holes. Wolves in sheeps clothing indeed. lol