According to her attorney, an appeals court in Sudan’s southern White Nile state has overturned a conviction for adultery that called for the young woman to be stoned to death.
According to a Sudanese law that mandates that an adulterous married person, male or female, be stoned to death, a court in Kosti town declared Maryam Tiraab guilty in June.
Her defense attorney, Intisaar Abdullah, stated to the Sudan Tribune news website on Thursday that an appeals court had “invalidated the court verdict concerning Tiraab.”
Since the trial court had not “taken into consideration the guidelines of a fair trial,” the court of appeal decided to remand the case to it and instructed it to review its decision, according to Ms. Abdullah.
Without providing more information, she claimed that the court of appeal also mandated that the trial court reopen the legal proceedings in accordance with “instructions it had issued”.
The prior decision, according to Ms. Tiraab’s defense attorneys, was “illegal” since their client lacked “legal representation.”
Ms. Tiraab, 20, and her spouse separated in 2020, and a year later, her husband accused her of adultery.
Many Sudanese attorneys who sympathized with Ms. Tiraab were outraged by the trial court’s ruling and vowed to appeal it.