Article 61BYJ Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade

Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade

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Zeinab Mohammed Salih
from World news | The Guardian on (#61BYJ)

Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country's new regime is rolling back women's rights

A woman in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the first known case in the country for almost a decade.

Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, was arrested by police in Sudan's White Nile state last month.

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