Fwd: Re: Sudan: lapidazione per Abok Alfa Akok

[Alessandro Marescotti <a.marescotti at peacelink.it>]

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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:26:56 +0100
> From: Paolo Mascellani <p.mascellani at dm.unipi.it>
> Organization: Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita` di Pisa
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> To: Alessandro Marescotti <a.marescotti at peacelink.it>
> Subject: Re: Sudan: lapidazione per Abok Alfa Akok
>
> Ciao Alessandro,
>
> > SILENZIO SULLA GIOVANE CONDANNATA IN SUDAN DUE PESI, DUE LAPIDAZIONI
>
> Scusa, ma mi sembra una notizia vecchia e superata. Mi risulta che il
> caso di Abok Alfa Akok sia stato "risolto". Naturalmente, non e`
> accettabile che una donna (per di piu` incinta, se non ho capito male)
> venga punita con 75 frustate senza alcun diritto d'appello, ma la vita
> sembra salva. Ecco alcuni comunicati che ho ricevuto gia` tempo fa.
>
> --
> > COMUNICATO STAMPA
> > 12 febbraio 2002
> > Sudan: caso Abok non risolve dramma di molte altre donne
> >
> > L'ambasciata sudanese, con il comunicato di oggi, ha confermato
> > l'annullamento della condanna a morte di Abok Alfa Akok in quanto pur
> > "essendo stata trovata illegalmente incinta" è di fede cristiana e
> > pertanto
> > non può esseregiudicata secondo la legge islamica.
>
> --
> > News Article by Reuters posted on February 10, 2002 at 17:52:02: EST 
> (-5 GMT)
> >
> > Sudan court blocks stoning execution of woman
> >
> > KHARTOUM, Feb 10 (Reuters) - A Sudanese appeals court has overturned a 
> sentence of death by
> > stoning for a
> > pregnant Christian woman accused of adultery, and has sent the case 
> back to the lower court
> > for fresh sentencing, court
> > documents showed.
> >
> > The appeals court in Sudan's southern Darfur state, bordering the 
> Central African Republic,
> > ruled late last month that the
> > lower court should give the defendant a "rebuke" sentence, not capital 
> punishment, the
> > documents received by Reuters on
> > Sunday showed.
>
> --
> > Sudanese Victims of Torture Group
> >
> >                          PRESS RELEASE:  18 February 2002
> >
> >                          DINKA WOMAN WHIPPED IN NYALA
> >
> >  SVTG has received new information on Abok Alfa Akok, the Dinka woman 
> previously sentenced
> > to death by stoning in
> > Nyala.
> >
> > SVTG can confirm that Abok, an 18 year old pregnant woman, was 
> sentenced by the Criminal
> > Court in Nyala on 12
> > February to 75 lashes.  The sentence was carried out immediately, on 
> the same day as
> > sentencing, after which Abok was
> > released.
> >
> > The lawyer acting on Abok's behalf has launched an appeal to the High 
> Court on the grounds
> > that the sentence was given
> > and immediately executed, thus making it impossible for Abok to seek 
> legal advice and
> > completely preventing her from
> > exercising any right of appeal.
> >
> > The Court of Appeal in Southern Darfur overturned the sentence of death 
> by stoning which
> > was issued to Abok, who was
> > accused of adultery, and sent the case back to the lower criminal court 
> in Nyala for new
> > sentencing where Abok was given
> > 75 lashes, as described above.
>
> --
> Paolo Mascellani
> Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita` di Pisa
> Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita` di Siena
> e-mail: p.mascellani at dm.unipi.it / mascellani at unisi.it