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- Friday 18 May 2012
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. (...)
- Thursday 28 February 2013
February 27, 2013 (NAIROBI) - Sudanese government doctors amputated a man’s right hand and left foot by court order in Khartoum on 14 February, violating international laws prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading (...)
- Friday 8 March 2013
March 7, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the Canadian charge d’affaires in Khartoum Dominique Rossetti to protest a statement by Ottawa which condemned the ruling against a man convicted of a 2006 (...)
- Tuesday 23 October 2012
October 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of Sudan’s main clerical authority, the Religious Scholars Committee (RSC), has publicly advocated girl child marriage, drawing the ire of women activists rights who called for an immediate ban (...)
- Sunday 8 July 2012
July 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir on Saturday said that he rejects ’secularism’ and reiterated his commitment to replace the country’s constitution with an ’Islamic’ one. FILE PHOTO - Sudan’s President Omer (...)
- Sunday 11 November 2012
November 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s presidential assistant, Nafe Ali Nafe, has claimed that the government is in possession of documents proving that opposition parties are against the implementation of Islamic Shaira laws and trying (...)
- Monday 18 February 2013
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URGENT: Implementation of Amputation Sentence in Khartoum, Sudan
February 18, 2013
Doctors in Al-Ribat University Hospital in Khartoum implemented a sentence of amputation on a man convicted with Brigandage (Haraba) after (...)
- Thursday 14 June 2012
June 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s minister of social welfare, Amira Al-Fadil, faced volleys of criticism on Wednesday from members of the national parliament who accused her ministry-run Zakat Authority of administrative anomalies. (...)
- Tuesday 12 March 2013
March 11, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese judges may receive special training on performing amputation on convicts should doctors refuse to carry them out, the country’s deputy chief judge said Monday. A special judge sits in court in Nyala (...)
- Monday 15 October 2012
October 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leader of Sudan’s opposition National Umma Party (NUP), Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, warned on Sunday that the country is growing increasingly polarized in terms of core political issues and ways of pursuing (...)
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