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  • Sudan Is About To Execute A Teen For Defending Herself Against Rape

    05/24/2018 9:08:41 AM PDT · by Simon Green · 25 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | 05/22/18 | Yassmin Abdel-Magied
    What do we know about Noura Hussein? The 19-year-old Sudanese woman is currently on death row in Omdurman, Sudan, for killing a man in self-defense. She was convicted of murdering her husband, who raped her on their “honeymoon.” When she was 16, Noura’s family attempted to force her to marry a man, despite the fact that Islam prohibits marriage without consent. Refusing the marriage, she ran 155 miles away from her family home to a town called Sennar. She lived with her aunt for three years, determined to complete her high school education and with her eyes on further studies....