Unnamed Girl
Crime: “Adultery”
May 2003
An unnamed 14 year old girl who was 9 months pregnant was arrested by the Peoples Police Force in the Wihida neighbourhood of Nyala, Darfur and sentenced to 100 lashes of the whip for the crime of “adultery”, in the Wihida neighbourhood of Nyala, Darfur. A 25-year old businessman, Alsir Sabeel Nour Aldeen, was charged in connection with the incident, but was found not guilty and freed “for the lack of evidence.”
For more information, see 2003 Report on the Human Rights Situation in Sudan by the Sudanese Organization against Torture (SOAT)
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