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) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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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