كتب الكاتب الفاتح جبرا المتوفرة بمعرض الدوحة
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From: Alfabet
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:51 AM
Subject: Intisar Bakri Abdulgader info query
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
Around 19 January I happened to read about the flogging sentence awaiting 16-year old Intisar Bakri Abdulgader. I know that she is only a detail, in view of the terrible war that is tearing your country apart for so many years. But every person is an important detail. I started campaigning in my little country Belgium to save the girl from being flogged. With a relative success, since I got the news in the Belgian newspapers, on national TV and on the Belgian website of Amnesty International.
As I lived in Africa for a couple of years and as I have been together with a Nigerian girl for 7 years, this problem is close to my heart. I want to continue helping Intisar Bakri Abdulgader and other girls in the same situation. In order to be able to do that, it would be necessary to get into contact with her lawyer, who is – if I am not mistaken – Mr. Ghazi Sulayman. I do not know how to contact him though. Can you help me providing me his contact details?
Just to tell you that I am serious, I sent a letter to the Sudanese government through the Sudanese embassy in Belgium that I am prepared to take the flogging on me instead of the girl. I know this may sound naïve, but it was/is not a joke. I sincerely hope her punishment will be commuted in a less harsh one, but if not I am willing to help her in any way I can. At the age of 16 people are still allowed to make mistakes. I do not want her life to end before it really started. Please help me with contact details of her lawyer. Through my political contacts in Belgium, I might be able to do something for her. She deserves a second chance, and her baby needs her. This issue goes way beyond Islam or Christianity. We are talking here of an inhumane punishment for a child with a child.
Thanks for helping me/her.
Bart Deceuninck
Belgium
[email protected]
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Re: please help him (Re: zumrawi)
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January 23, 2004 at 10:15:54: EST (-5 GMT)
Sudan: Chief Justice Suspends Flogging of Girl
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 23, 2004
The London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International has welcomed the suspension of a flogging sentence against a 16-year-old girl convicted last year of adultery, but urged the Sudanese authorities to treat the case in accordance to their obligations under international human rights law.
Sudan's chief justice on Wednesday suspended the sentence against Intisar Bakri Abd al-Qadir, pending her appeal against it. She was to have received 100 lashes, with the punishment due to be carried out on Friday.
Benedicte Goderiaux, Amnesty International's programme officer for Sudan, told IRIN that whereas her organisation had not adopted any stance against Islam, it considered punishments such as flogging, torture, amputation and execution as cruel, degrading and inhuman. "The sentence was inconsistent with Sudan's commitments under international human rights law," Goderiaux said. "Moreover, the girl is below 18. She is a child. Such a punishment contravenes the right of the child," she added.
According to Goderiaux, the law was applied unfairly against Intisar, whose pregnancy was used in court as sufficient evidence for a conviction, yet the man involved only needed four witnesses to prove his innocence.
Intisar's lawyer Ghazi Sulayman, who is also a human rights activist, told IRIN on Thursday that he had appealed against the sentence on the grounds that she was not only a Christian, and therefore not bound by Shari'ah, but also that she was still was a minor.
"The chief justice of Sudan ordered a stay of execution and promised to look at my appeal," Sulayman told IRIN from Khartoum. "I am very optimistic that the high court of Sudan will dismiss the case against her," he added.
According the Koran, the Islamic holy book, a man or woman convicted of adultery is to receive 100 lashes. It also says those who "defame honourable" women and cannot produce four witnesses shall be given 80 lashes.
The girl, who reportedly lives with her mother in a shanty town outside Khartoum, gave birth in September to a son. The man who she alleged to have raped her has, however, denied having had any connection with her. The punishment had initially been postponed because she was pregnant, and then in December because she was in poor health.
Sulayman criticised the magistrate who had passed the sentence. He went on to say that he intended to lodge a separate suit against the man who allegedly raped Intisar. "I will ask for more evidence against the man and even, where possible, a DNA test to prove the paternity of the child," he said.
Meanwhile, the Swiss-based World Organiation Against Torture (OMCT) on Thursday expressed concern over the "unfair" trial and sentencing to death of 14 people and to cross-amputation of one other person in Sudan.
Nine people were at risk of execution and cross-amputation, without the right to further appeal, the Supreme Court in Khartoum having dismissed their initial appeals against their sentences, which had been issued by a specialised criminal court, the organisation said in a statement.
In other separate cases, the statement said, the Nyala criminal court in the Darfur region of western Sudan had sentenced five men to death by hanging after convicting them of murder under Article 130 of the Penal Code (1991). The five appeared before the criminal court in May 2003 and were sentenced on 3 November, without any legal representation.
The detainees alleged that they had been beaten and tortured by police officers in order to force them to confess, OMCT added. "The International Secretariat of OMCT is gravely concerned for the physical and psychological integrity of the individuals, who are at risk of being subjected to cross-amputation in the case of Mr Muhammad Ishaq Muhammad or execution in the case of the other persons in question, and this as a result of unfair trials," the statement said.
According to OMCT, the procedures used in the courts did not meet international standards for trials, notably due to the lack of legal representation of defendants in most of the cases. It urged the Sudanese authorities to "immediately" commute the sentences and guarantee respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms country-wide.
OMCT said that the international human rights conventions ratified by Sudan prohibited torture, such as amputation, under any circumstance. "OMCT...is strongly opposed to the death penalty as an extreme form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and a violation of the right to life, as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments," it added.
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Re: please help him (Re: muntasir)
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أدناه تفاصيل القضية ونداء العفو الدولية لإلغاء العقوبة. أود التنويه إلي أن هذا البيان سابق للخبر الذي أورده الأستاذ منتصر أعلاه بتعليق العقوبة علي إنتصار عبد القادر، وأورده فقط للمزيد من التفاصيل حول القضية.
Sudan: 16-year-old girl to be flogged for "crime" of adultery
Feature, 09/01/2004 Printer friendly
Amnesty International is calling for the sentence of 100 lashes, passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for the "crime" of adultery, to be commuted immediately.
Following the postponement of the punishment from 20 December to 23 January due to the girl's poor health, Amnesty International is also asking people all over the world to write to the Sudanese authorities asking them to stop the punishment going ahead.
Intisar Bakri Abdulgader gave birth to a child in September after becoming pregnant outside marriage. She was convicted of adultery and sentenced by a local court in the Khartoum suburb of Kalakla in July when she was seven months pregnant. The sentence was upheld by the appeal court in August. The alleged father of the child has reportedly not been charged but will have a blood test to establish paternity.
Intisar is caring for her four-month-old son, Dori. She is said to be very frightened at the prospect of the punishment and is reportedly eating and sleeping very little.
Under article 146 of 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. Adultery is defined as sexual intercourse with a man without being lawfully bound to him. Although the penal codes are based on an interpretation of Islamic law everyone in the north of Sudan is subject to them. Intisar's family are Christians from the south of Sudan who fled to the north to escape fighting near their home.
Amnesty International UK Media Director Lesley Warner 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."
Scores of people were sentenced to amputation or flogging in Sudan last year. Flogging is frequently carried out immediately after sentencing leaving no chance for appeal, even when there are concerns about whether a fair trial has been held.
The Sudanese Penal Code, which is partly based on interpretation of Islamic legal doctrines, allows for penalties including flogging and amputations. Under Sudanese law, all who live in northern Sudan, whether Muslim or Christian (like Intisar Bakri Abdulgader), fall under the penalties of the Sudanese Penal Code's interpretation of religious law. The use of religious law is an issue of contention in the ongoing peace negotiations between the Sudanese government and rebels in the South.
Background
Amnesty International does not take a position on Islamic or any other religious law, but does consider such penalties to be cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments which are inconsistent with Sudan's obligations under international human rights law (Sudan is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights). Moreover, the flogging of a child contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Sudan is also a party.
Amnesty International is asking people all over the world to send appeals as soon as possible to the Sudanese ministers for home affairs, foreign affairs and justice asking for this sentence to be commuted and for the government to abolish cruel punishments.
Individuals can write urging the authorities to commute immediately the sentence of flogging passed on Intisar Bakri Abdulgader, and asking the government to abolish or suspend the punishment of flogging in Sudanese law to bring it into line with the international standards it has ratified. Appeals can be sent to:
Major General Abdul-Rahim Muhammed Hussein, Minister of Internal Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, PO Box 281, Khartoum, Sudan
Mr Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Ministry of Justice, Khartoum, Sudan
His Excellency Dr Hasan Abdin Mohammad Osman, Embassy of Sudan, 3 Cleveland Row, St James's, London SW1A 1DD
For more information visit: www.amnesty.org.uk
Media information:
Sarah Green, +44 (0) 207 814 6238
Neil Durkin, +44 (0) 207 814 6241
Out of hours, +44 (0) 7721 398 984
http://news.amnesty.org/mav/regions/AFR
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