Tag Archives: Zina

(19 April 2016) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) today published a joint briefing for UN member states setting out key concerns and recommendations to improve the human rights situation in …

(8 March 2016) In February 2015, Sudan passed a number of amendments to the 1991 Criminal Act, including long-awaited amendments concerning rape and sexual violence. An amendment to Article 149 (rape) changed the legal definition of rape, and a new article 151 (3) was introduced, providing a new offence of …

Below is the text of the oral statement delivered by the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) during the official agenda item “NGO statements on the human rights situation in Africa” during the 57th session of …

(13 June 2014) Next month the United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Sudan’s progress implementing its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee will assess, amongst other things, Sudan’s compliance guaranteeing the right to life, the right to be free from torture and …

Kampala, Nairobi, Paris, May 20, 2014 – FIDH and its member organisation, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), condemn the sentencing of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim to death for apostasy and to a hundred lashings for adultery and urge Sudanese authorities to revoke this decision. The verdict constitutes …

(15 May 2014) Al-Haj Yousef Criminal Court in Khartoum Bahri today confirmed the sentence of 100 lashings and the death penalty by hanging against 27-year old Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a Christian woman convicted for adultery and apostasy on 11 May. The penalties were confirmed after Ms. Ibrahim, who is in her …

(15 May 2014) Al-Haj Yousef Criminal Court in Khartoum Bahri today confirmed the sentence of 100 lashings and the death penalty by hanging against 27-year old Meriam Yahia Ibrahim, a Christian woman convicted for adultery and apostasy on 11 May. The penalties were confirmed after Ms. Ibrahim, who is in her …

(11 July 2012) On 10 July 2012, Judge Imad Shamoun sitting at Al Nasir Criminal Court in Khartoum sentenced a 23 year old woman to death by stoning for adultery (Zina) under Article 146 of the Sudanese Penal Code 1991. Ms. L.I.E (case number 1222), who resides in Alizba area …

(5 June 2012) The Coalition of organizations members of the Campaign, “ Africa for Women’s Rights: Ratify and Respect ” strongly condemn the sentence to death by stoning of Intisar Sharif Abdalla, a twenty-year old Sudanese woman, native to the Nuba Mountains, on accusations of adultery. Our organizations urge the Sudanese authorities …