Noura Hussein Hammad (Arabic: نورة حسين حماد) is a Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death by hanging[1] on 10 May 2018 for killing her husband after he raped her. Hussein's legal team was given two weeks to appeal the sentence.[2] In June 2018, Sudan commuted her sentence to five years in prison and a restitution payment of 337,000 Sudanese pounds (US $18,700).[3]
She was forced into marriage at age 16;[4] the marriage was arranged when she was 15.[5][6] The defendant claimed the rape occurred while she was restrained by her husband's family members immediately after her marriage.[7] The husband's family declined opportunities to pardon Hussein or accept financial compensation in lieu of her execution.[8] The case caused worldwide outrage.
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This issue was written about by Emtithal Mahmoud in her chapter 'Sharia state (of mind)' in the book 'Feminists don't wear pink and other lies' by Scarlett Curtis. She described in a poem that what Hussein did was "an act of bravery of self-defence of desperation".
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