Posted on 05/10/2018 9:04:08 PM PDT by Simon Green
A court in Sudan has sentenced to death a young woman for killing her husband after he allegedly raped her as his male relatives restrained her.
The judge in Omdurman confirmed the death penalty for Noura Hussein after her husband's family refused to accept financial compensation.
Human rights groups are calling for her conviction to be overturned.
Ms Hussein, who is now 19, was forced into the marriage at the age of 16 and had tried to run away.
She is said to have wanted to finish her education and train as a teacher.
Her case has attracted widespread attention on social media where a campaign called #JusticeforNoura has been trending on Twitter.
How did the killing come about?
Ms Hussein took refuge at her aunt's house but three years later she says she was tricked into returning home by her own family who then handed her back to her husband.
After six days she says he recruited some of his cousins who allegedly held her down as he raped her.
When he allegedly attempted to do the same the following day she lashed out at him with a knife and stabbed him to death.
She then ran back to her parents who surrendered her to the police.
The Sharia (Islamic religious law) court convicted Ms Hussein of premeditated murder last month and on Thursday officially sentenced her to death by hanging, according to Reuters news agency. Her lawyers have 15 days to appeal.
"Under Sharia law, the husband's family can demand either monetary compensation or death," Badr Eldin Salah, an activist from the Afrika Youth Movement who was in the court told the agency.
"They chose death and now the death penalty has been handed down."
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You’re supposed to lie back and enjoy it.
Why didn’t Eric Scheiderman employ the defense?
What a filthy bunch of subhuman knucklewalking pieces of excrement. They don’t deserve to be above ground. They deserve to be fed into a woodchipper along with some dead pigs infected with something disgusting.
Liberals have something have something in common with Muslims: women are a man’s sexual property.
Oh wait... Schneiderman demanded his Sri Lankan GF call him “Master.”
And like in Islam, liberals believe women should be beaten to secure their obedience.
Intersectionality is a wonderful thing, indeed.
All we’ll hear are crickets from the Feminist groups.
Yes, Islam is really a religion of “getting a piece”.
Can’t criticize the religion of peace ... they’ll kill people if you do.
Funny when feminists accuse conservatives a la The Handmaid’s Tale of seeking to keep women barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.
When liberal bondage of women exceeds anything attributed to conservatives.
Just ask Schneiderman where a woman’s place is: to be beaten and choked by a man. That’ll leave a mark.
Right, crickets from he feminists and all the liberal human rights groups...
Coming to a state near you. . . .
Yup. Feminists could not care less about this poor woman being raped and sentenced to death for defending herself in this case because their is no conservative, Christian, or American to blame.
Hello? Hillary, Madonna, joy bahar, woopie Goldberg your wanted on line 1 please pick up the hypocrite phone in the lobby
Thank you, Islam.
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