Earlier this week we invited you to sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. A few days have past and many people have already shown their support to the 19-year-old Noura Hussein, sentenced to death by hanging because she killed our husband in self-defense after suffering marital rape.
As we tweeted yesterday, 730,000 people already signed the #JusticeForNoura Petition:
More than 730,000 people signed the #JusticeForNoura Petition on https://t.co/YKF9vghBBI, sign it too to reach 1 million! https://t.co/QksE7E9s2V Please also support @Amnesty: Appeal to save #NouraHussein’s life! #SaveNoura #deathpenalty #Sudan https://t.co/WkF90FfLsi
— MagkaSama Project (@MagkaSama) May 17, 2018
Amnesty International is now launching their campaign to support Noura: Appeal to save Noura Hussein’s life. You can send an email to the Ministry of Justice asking them to save Noura:
Your excellency,
I am writing with regard to the case of Noura Hussein Hamad, a 19-year-old who was sentenced to death on 10 May 2018 for killing her rapist husband. Noura is a victim of marital rape and she should not be killed for defending herself. I am writing to ask the Sudanese government to repeal the death penalty against Noura, and allow her a retrial considering her mitigating circumstances.
Thank you.
Human Rights Watch published an article on their website by Jehanne Henry, Team Leader, Africa Division:
International media has rightly focused on the case of Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman sentenced to death for killing her husband – whom she’d been forced to marry – as he tried to rape her.
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This is not the first time Sudan has attracted global condemnation for sentencing a woman to death. In 2014, an eight-month-pregnant woman, Mariam Yahyia Ibrahim, was sentenced to death for the crime of apostasy, for claiming to be Christian, and to 100 lashes for the crime of adultery, for marrying a non-Muslim Southern Sudanese.
Once again, it’s important to sign the petition and to send the message via Amnesty International website. We count on you!
