Wednesday, May 16, 2018
"The United Nations office of human rights appealed to Sudanese officials for clemency for a 19-year-old who was sentenced to death for killing the man she was forced to marry.
Noura Hussein was imprisoned in Omdurman, Sudan, in 2017 after fatally stabbing her husband, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down.
A judge sentenced her to death last week after her husband's family refused an option to pardon her and rejected financial compensation, requesting that she be executed instead.
'Applying the death penalty to a young girl who was treated so appallingly would be deeply unjust,' a spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement Wednesday."
