Seven men
in Sudan found guilty of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl were sentenced
to death by hanging on Monday, reports say. The victims’ lawyer, called the sentence
“more than just”.
Speaking
to the AFP, the lawyer Salma Mohammedahmed Hamed said Judge Ahmed Khalil
Albahar ruled on the case on Sunday at a court in Khartoum’s twin city of
Omdurman, also sentencing six other minors who abused the girl to 10 years each
in a reformatory. Cases of gang rape are rare in the Islamist-run state.
“He found
them guilty by the evidence he received of raping a child,” he said. All 13 of
them abused her. “They gave her a cup of juice containing drugs and then raped
her,” Hamed said. In his verdict, the judge cited a presidential directive
calling for heavier punishments of sex crimes. Hamed said the girl was treated
at a rape trauma centre and has returned to school.
Justified?
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