{"id":146858,"date":"2018-06-26T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/noura-hussein-appeals-court-overturns-death-sentence\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T18:59:56","slug":"noura-hussein-appeals-court-overturns-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/noura-hussein-appeals-court-overturns-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Noura Hussein: Appeals court overturns death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Young women in Sudan, stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/10DBB\/production\/_102215096_gettyimages-98568415.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The UN says a third of Sudanese women are married before the age of 18                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence of a woman who killed her husband after he allegedly raped her, her lawyer says.<\/p>\n<p>Noura Hussein, 19, was instead sentenced to five years in jail, lawyer Abdelaha Mohamad said. <\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Zainab Ahmed, told the BBC she was happy her daughter&#039;s life had been spared.  <\/p>\n<p>International celebrities had backed an online campaign, #JusticeforNoura, to demand Ms Hussein&#039;s release. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, an Islamic court had sentenced her to death by hanging, following her conviction for the premeditated murder of her husband, Abdulrahman Mohamed Hammad. <\/p>\n<p>Ms Hussein said her husband had recruited some of his own cousins who allegedly held her down as he raped her. <\/p>\n<p>When he allegedly attempted to do the same the following day she lashed out at him with a knife and stabbed him to death. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#039;Hoping for a miracle to stop our daughter being hanged&#039;<\/li>\n<li>Sudan country profile<\/li>\n<li>Child marriages declining, says Unicef<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ms Hussein was forced into the marriage at the age of 16. Her husband, who was also her cousin, was 16 years her senior.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2017 report by the UN&#039;s children&#039;s fund Unicef, one third of Sudanese girls are married before they turn 18.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, charity Amnesty International called the decision &quot;hugely welcome news&quot;, but said the five years in prison was a &quot;disproportionate punishment&quot;, and urged the country to reform its laws on marriage and marital rape &quot;so that victims are not the ones who are penalised.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @amnesty                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2Breaking\ud83d\udce2 Sudan has repealed the death penalty for 19-year-old Noura Hussein, who was sentenced for killing her husband, after he tried to rape her. Thank you to over 400,000 of you who demanded #JusticeForNoura &amp; helped make this happen! pic.twitter.com\/euzWQ4LuUX<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AmnestyInternational (@amnesty) June 26, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @amnesty<\/p>\n<h2>You may also be interested in:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#039;I killed my rapist when he came back for my sister&#039;<\/li>\n<li>The girl who stopped her own marriage<\/li>\n<li>&#039;I was 12 when I married a 35-year-old&#039;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, Ms Hussein&#039;s mother said her daughter had &quot;hated herself&quot; after her husband first raped her.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She had got a knife ready to take her own life if he touched her again,&quot; Zainab Ahmed said. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is a child bride really married every seven seconds?<\/li>\n<li>What is it like to be a child bride?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the husband&#039;s death, Ms Hussein ran to her family&#039;s home to tell them what had happened. <\/p>\n<p>Fearing revenge, her father took their whole family to the police station in a bid to protect them - where she was instead arrested. <\/p>\n<p>Her jail sentence caused international outrage, with celebrities like Naomi Campbell and Emma Watson tweeting their support for Ms Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International heard about the case, and the charity urged its supporters to email the Sudanese justice minister about the case - overwhelming his inbox and forcing him to set up a new email address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The UN says a third of Sudanese women are married before the age of 18 An appeals court in Sudan has overturned the death sentence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}