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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:21:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Tracy Quan <quan-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-FEM: Update - Women sentenced to death for prostitution, Sudan (fwd)


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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 13:15:42 +0000
From: sexworknet-AT-GN.APC.ORG
Subject: Women sentenced to death for prostitution, Sudan

>>The World Organisation Against Torture has received the following
>>information on four women sentenced to death for prostitution. We have
>>sent the following letter to the President of Sudan.
>>
>>His Excellency Lieutenant General
>>Omar Hassan al-Bashir
>>President of the Republic of Sudan
>>Fax : +249 11 71 724
>>
>>
>>Geneva, 5 December 1997
>>
>>
>>Your Excellency,
>>
>>The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against
>>Torture (OMCT) - the world's largest network of human rights
>>organisation - would like to express its grave concerns over the four
>>women sentenced to death by an Islamic Sharia court for prostitution
>>in Karthoum on 25 November 1997. The four women had allegedly been
>>arrested several times before for prostitution.
>>
>>According to the information received, the four women have only been
>>given 15 days to appeal against the sentence. It has been reported
>>that the four would be executed on 10 December, unless the Supreme
>>Court reverses their sentence. Sudan's Minister of Justice Abdel Basit
>>Sabdrat, who is also the country's Attorney General, has confirmed
>>that the women's case is before the Supreme Court.
>>
>>The International Secretariat of OMCT would appreciate your
>>intervention in this situation. In particular, the International
>>Secretariat urges you (a) to guarantee the physical and psychological
>>integrity of the four women; (b) to ensure that they will be  pardoned
>> and (c) to take all necessary measures to bring an end to the
>>practice of corporal punishment. Recalling the various international
>>provisions, more particularly   the Universal Declaration and the
>>International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the
>>International Secretariat insists on the necessity that the
>>authorities guarantee the right to life to everyone.
>>
>>Moreover, the International Secretariat requests you to ensure in all
>>circumstances the full respect of human rights and fundamental
>>freedoms in accordance with national law and international standards .
>>
>>I thank you for your kind consideration of this matter and I remain,
>>
>>>
>>Yours Faithfully,
>>
>>
>>
>>Eric Sottas
>>Director
>>
>>
>>Ben Schonveld
>>Projects Manager
>>Case Postale 119
>>37-39 Rue de Vermont
>>CH1211 Geneva 20 CIC
>>OMCT-SOS-Torture
>>Fax 4122 733 1051
>>Ph  4122 733 3140
>>OMCT is: l'Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture
>>         The World Organisation Against Torture
>>
>>OMCT-AT-IPROLINK.CH
>>http://www.omct.org/
>>
>>OMCT - The World Organisation Against Torture is the Worlds largest
>>network of human rights organisations fighting against all forms of
>>torture, cruel inhuman or degrading treatment, forced disappearances
>>summary execution or other more subtle forms of violent repression.
>>
>>OMCT has consultative status with the UN, The ILO and the
>>African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.





   

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