Sudanese woman reportedly sentenced to death by stoning for adultery
May 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A court in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has sentenced an unidentified woman to be executed by stoning for committing the “crime of fornication” under Islamic Shariah laws, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.
According to the privately-owned daily newspaper Al-Ahram al-Yawm, the court issued the sentence after the defendant refused to “retract her earlier confessions” that the child she gave birth to is from a man other than her husband.
The man she said she had a sexual relationship with has denied the charge and was therefore acquitted by the judge.
The predominantly Muslim Sudan is supposedly governed by Shariah laws under the rule of the Islamist National Congress Party (NCP).
Newspapers said that the sentence has been referred to the Supreme Court for final approval.
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