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Woman Sentenced To Death By Stoning For First Time In 10 Years

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Updated 11:03 18 Jul 2022 GMT+1Published 13:22 17 Jul 2022 GMT+1

Woman Sentenced To Death By Stoning For First Time In 10 Years

A Sudanese woman who allegedly cheated on her husband is the first person to be sentenced to death by stoning in nearly a decade.

Sonja Tutty

Sonja Tutty

A 20-year-old woman is the first person in Sudan who has been sentenced to death by stoning in nearly a decade after she allegedly confessed to cheating on her husband.

Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab was interrogated and taken into custody by police last month in the country’s White Nile state after allegedly making a confession to adultery.

Kosti Criminal Court heard her case on June 26, where she was found guilty of violating Sudan's adultery laws and was sentenced to death by stoning. Woman found guilty of adultury in Sudan are considered wrong on social, religious, moral and legal grounds.

Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab is hoping the High Court will appeal the sentence.
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Under Islamic law, those found guilty can face punishment including limb amputation, flogging and less often, death.

It is understood that the investigations into Tiyrab began after she separated from her husband and moved back to her home.

The young woman will take her case to the High Court that is yet to approve the sentence. She is appealing against the criminal court decision and looking for the severe punishment to be overruled.

The last stoning sentence in Sudan was handed out in 2013 when a woman was arrested for adultery. The ruling was later overturned by the High Court, as most death by stoning cases are.

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The sentence has received backlash as campaigners worry the decision is a sign that the country's military coup in October is leading to a backtracking in the few women's rights made under the previous transitional government.

The Uganda-based African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said the death penalty by stoning violates domestic and international law. It added Tiyrab was not given a fair trial and was unaware that what she said during interrogatopm would be used against her.

The centre said she was denied legal representation.

“On 10th August 2021, Sudan ratified the convention against torture, 35 years after adding its signature to the international treaty in 1986,” it said. “Therefore, execution by stoning as a form of state-sanctioned torture is a breach of Sudan’s human rights obligations.”

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The ACJPS said the sentences violates domestic and international law.
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The penalty is still carried out in at least 15 countries, with Iran being reported as having the world’s highest rate of execution by stoning.

Human rights lawyer Jehanne Henry, told The Guardian that the recent case reflects just how harsh sharia laws are being implemented in the country.

“The death by stoning case is a reminder that the criminal law reforms during the transition [government] were not complete, and that such harsh, archaic punishments are still officially on the books,” Henry added.

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Topics: World News, Crime

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