AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned a trial that sentenced two Sudanese women to death by stoning under Islamic law in north Sudan.
The trials of Sadia Idriss Fadul and Amouna Abdallah Daldoum were convicted of adultery under Sharia law February 13 and March 6 respectively.
Amnesty International alleges that the women’s human rights have been violated as they were not provided with a lawyer or interpreter at the case which took place in Arabic.
Neither women are able to speak Arabic as they do not come from Arab tribes, leading Amnesty to comment: “They were not able to defend themselves, as their first languages are those of their ethnic groups.”
The male indicted in Fadul’s case was not prosecuted as it was found that there was insufficient evidence against him.
Although this could call Fadul’s guilt into question, both executions will go ahead whenever the state sees fit to carry out the sentences.
