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Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan (FUCK PATRIARCHY)
Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan
Activists in last-ditch effort to save 19-year-old condemned to death for stabbing the man she was forced to marry as he assaulted her
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A social media campaign has been launched in support of Noura Hussein, who says she was shocked to receive the death sentence for killing her husband as he tried to rape her. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP
A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been condemned to death by a court in Omdurman for stabbing to death the husband to whom she was forcibly married, who she says raped her with assistance of his family.The death penalty for Noura Hussein was confirmed by a judge on Thursday after her husbands family rejected the possibility of financial compensation and instead asked for her to be executed. The case has attracted widespread attention on social media, where a campaign Justice for Noura has been trending on Twitter. Her legal team now has 15 days to appeal the sentence.
After her initial sentence, Hussein told supporters: It was a shocking moment when the judge convicted me with murder. I knew then that I [would] be executed, leaving my dreams unfulfilled.
The case, which once again highlights the issue of forced marriage and marital rape in a number of countries, is striking for its shocking details.
Married by her family at 16, Noura fled to take refuge at an aunts house for three years before she was tricked into returning home by her own family, who then handed her over to her husbands family.According to her supporters including the activist group Equality Now, which is backing a petition organised on her behalf Hussein had been with her husband for six days when he raped her with the assistance of his brother, a relative, and a witness, who held her down.She would not have sex with the man, Sarah ElHasan, an activist supporting Husseins case, told al-Jazeera. He recruited some of his cousins and brought them [to his] home where they held her down while her husband raped her. When he attempted to rape her again the following day, she stabbed her husband to death before going to her own parents, who handed her over to police.
Muawya Khidir, a member of Husseins defence team, told local media that the death penalty was not appropriate since Hussein was defending herself at the time of the killing and was mentally and psychologically disturbed as a result of rape.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/10/teenager-who-killed-her-husband-after-he-raped-her-is-sentenced-to-death-in-sudan-noura-hussein
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Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan (FUCK PATRIARCHY) (Original Post)
niyad
May 2018
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Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)1. With you 100%.
The powers that be want to make an example of her, I'm sure.
niyad
(113,582 posts)2. you are quite correct. I was horrified reading this case.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)3. Everyone should be horrified.
And this is the GOPs wet dream.
niyad
(113,582 posts)5. sadly, you are quite correct.
Doodley
(9,135 posts)4. What is wrong with these people? She should be given an award for bravery, not sentenced to death.
niyad
(113,582 posts)6. patriarchy is what is wrong. one very sick society.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)7. Her family was probably paid for her
And didn't want to give the money back.
niyad
(113,582 posts)8. there is that. sick people.
Response to More_Cowbell (Reply #7)
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get the red out
(13,468 posts)9. Evil culture!!!!
I am sick to death of patriarchy. The poor girl is going to be murdered, but at least the rapist is DEAD! Small consolation. The only good rapist is a ....you know the saying.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)11. ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW
That is also the problem.