Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab was arrested last month by Sudanese police in the White Nile state, accused of infidelity.
The 20-year-old was recently sentenced to death by stoning, writes The Guardian.
According to the African Center for Justice and Peace (ACJPS), headquartered in Uganda, the verdict is clearly in violation of national and international law.
They are asking for immediate release.
– A serious breach
The ACJPS claims the young woman was not given a fair trial. She should also not have been informed that everything she said during questioning can and will be used against her during a trial.
Tiyrab is also said to have been denied legal aid.
Rape acquittal shocks
– The death penalty for stoning for infidelity is a serious violation of international law, including the right to life, the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment and / or punishment, the African ACJPS said in a statement.
The Guardian reports that most stoning sentences in Sudan are overturned in the Supreme Court.
The woman must appeal the verdict.
Human rights lawyer Jehanne Henry says that the woman’s verdict shows that sharia law is still practiced in the country, even though the new transitional government in 2020 announced that they would change the country’s sharia policy.
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Whipping is practiced
After dictator Omar al-Bashir was forced to step down after 30 years as head of state, the transitional government decided that Sudan should remove all laws that violated human rights, wrote The Guardian i 2020.
The new government would also ban female genital mutilation and allow non-Muslims to enjoy alcohol.
Although whipping was banned in Sudan the same year, several of the country’s courts still practice the punishment method, the newspaper writes.
The last time anyone was sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan was in 2012. However, this sentence was overturned after the court in Omdurham dropped all the charges due to the position of the evidence, wrote Amnesty same year.
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