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PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 54/104/2003
08 December 2003
UA 359/03 Flogging
SUDAN Intisar Bakri Abdulgader (f), aged 16
Intisar Bakri Abdulgader, a school student in the capital Khartoum, has been
sentenced to 100 lashes on the grounds of adultery. The date of the punishment,
which constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, has been set for 20
December.
Intisar Bakri Abdulgader gave birth to a child in September after becoming
pregnant outside marriage. She had been tried and sentenced before the district
court (mahkama juz'iya) in Kalakla, a suburb of Khartoum, in July, when she was
seven months pregnant. She appealed but the sentence was upheld in August by
the appeal court. The alleged father of the child has reportedly not been
charged but will have a blood test to establish paternity.
Under Sudan's Penal Code, adultery is punishable by execution by stoning, if
the offender is married, or by one hundred lashes, if the offender is not
married (article 146 of the Penal Code). According to article 145 of the Penal
Code, adultery is defined as being sexual intercourse with a man without being
lawfully bound to him.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Sudanese Penal Code, which is partly based on interpretation from Islamic
Law, allows for penalties such as flogging and amputations. Under Sudanese law,
all who live in northern Sudan, whether Muslim or (like Intisar Bakri
Abdulgader) Christian, fall under the penalties of the Sudanese Penal Code's
interpretation of religious law. Sudanese women accused of offences such as
selling without a license or brewing alcohol are frequently given summary
trials and flogged immediately after sentencing. Sentences for pregnant women
accused of adultery are normally delayed until after childbirth.
While Amnesty International does not take a position on Islamic or any other
religious law, it considers such penalties as cruel, inhuman and degrading
punishments which are inconsistent with Sudan's obligations under the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Moreover, the
flogging of a child contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC), to which Sudan is a party. Article 37(a) of the CRC states: "No child
shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment."
In October 2002, in its concluding observations on the report by the Sudanese
government, the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that Sudan
"end the imposition of corporal punishment, including flogging, amputation and
other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, on persons
who may have committed crimes while under 18 (...)"
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 Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Rakoba | 12-23-03, 08:31 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | ASAAD IBRAHIM | 12-23-03, 08:39 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | aymen | 12-23-03, 08:44 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Rakoba | 12-24-03, 09:51 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-24-03, 08:23 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-24-03, 08:39 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | smart_ana2001 | 12-24-03, 08:54 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | smart_ana2001 | 12-24-03, 09:00 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-24-03, 09:04 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-24-03, 09:14 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | smart_ana2001 | 12-25-03, 01:12 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 06:43 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-25-03, 12:51 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-25-03, 12:52 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-25-03, 12:53 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-25-03, 01:12 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | tasneem | 12-25-03, 01:36 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 03:34 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 03:56 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | tasneem | 12-25-03, 04:02 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 06:21 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | مراويد | 12-25-03, 05:34 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | مراويد | 12-25-03, 05:39 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | عباس فاضل العزى | 12-25-03, 01:37 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 04:06 PM |
 Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bint_alahfad | 12-25-03, 03:30 PM |
 Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bint_alahfad | 12-25-03, 03:33 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bint_alahfad | 12-25-03, 03:38 PM |
 Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | EXORCIST7 | 12-25-03, 05:53 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | عباس فاضل العزى | 12-25-03, 06:40 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-25-03, 07:03 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | yasiko | 12-25-03, 07:28 PM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-28-03, 10:10 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-28-03, 10:11 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-28-03, 11:58 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | bayan | 12-28-03, 11:58 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | عباس فاضل العزى | 12-28-03, 11:06 AM |
| Re: Teenager facing an Islamic punishment of 100 lashes | Abo Amna | 12-29-03, 06:22 PM |
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