Amnesty pleads for teenage mother facing flogging

Amnesty International today called for the sentence of 100 lashes passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for adultery to be commuted immediately.

Amnesty International today called for the sentence of 100 lashes passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for adultery to be commuted immediately.

She is set to be flogged on December 20.

Intisar Bakri Abdulgader gave birth to a child in September after becoming pregnant outside marriage.

She was convicted of adultery and sentenced by a court in the capital when she was seven months pregnant.

The sentence was upheld by an appeal court. The alleged father of the child has reportedly not been charged but will have a blood test to establish paternity.

In Sudan, adultery is punishable by execution by stoning if the offender is married, or by one hundred lashes if the offender is not married.

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “The Sudanese authorities must not carry out this vicious sentence on a young girl.

“It is a cruel punishment which completely contravenes basic international human rights law, to which Sudan is a party. The authorities should abolish all these cruel punishments now.”

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