Sudanese teenager who killed rapist husband appeals death sentence
by Peter Beaumont and Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Kharto from World news | The Guardian on (#3QY6D)
Noura Hussein, whose case has been taken up by Naomi Campbell and Emma Watson, vows to help other women forced to marry
The lawyers for a young Sudanese woman sentenced to death for killing her husband as he tried to rape her have formally appealed the ruling as a petition calling for her to be spared reached a million signatures.
The legal team working on behalf of 19-year-old Noura Hussein, whose case has become an international cause celebre, had until Thursday to file an appeal to the death sentence handed down by a Sudanese court 15 days ago.
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