A young woman was sentenced to death by stoning after being arrested for adultery: first case in years

A young woman was sentenced to death by stoning after being arrested for adultery in Sudan. There hasn’t been a similar case since 2013, when another woman was sentenced in South Kordofan and then her sentence was overturned.

Maryam Alsyed Tiyrabthe 20-year-old arrested in White Nile last month is appealing the decision. The court should dismiss your case.since most of these causes are rejected.

According to The Guardian, activists are concerned that this ruling is a sign that the October military coup in Sudan “encouraged” lawmakers to revoke small gains for women’s rights in the country.

The African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) ruled on this ruling, assuring that it violates national and international law. He called for Tiyrab’s “immediate and unconditional release”.

“The application of the death penalty by stoning for the crime of adultery is a serious violation of international law, including the right to life and the prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” the center said.

For the ACJPS, the woman did not have the opportunity to have legal representation, did not receive a fair trial and was not told that the information provided during the interrogation would be used against her.

The case of 2012

In July 2021, Intisar Abdullah Sharif she was released after being sentenced to death by stoning for the same reason as Tiyrab.

Thanks to an action by Amnesty International, the judicial system released her for lack of evidence, citing Article 141 of the 1991 Sudanese Criminal Procedure Law.

According to the official Amnesty website, Abdallah was sentenced after “an unfair trial”.

“He didn’t have access to a lawyer and the trial took place in Arabic, a language he doesn’t know well. Intisar initially pleaded not guilty, but in a later hearing she admitted to her allegations after allegedly being beaten by her brother. The sentence was based solely on this testimony, “she says.

stoning

stoning It is a very old form of execution in which a group of assistants throws stones at the condemned man until he is killed.. Because it produces very slow and painful deaths, stoning has fallen into disuse in most countries as human rights have been recognized.

Today, there are still countries in Africa and Asia that use stoning as a method of execution. Most of these nations respond to Muslim creed and Islamic law.

In 2021, stoning is included in the laws of Sudan and other countries and punishes only Zina’s crime, ie “adultery by people”. Most of the victims throughout history were women.