TAGS: Urgent Action Network • Freedom of Expression, Gender-based Discrimination, Prisoners and People at Risk, Women's Rights • Africa, Sudan •
Good News! – Sudan: Ferdous Al Toum’s Sentence Quashed (UA 151/15)
November 10, 2015
The Court of Appeal in Sudan has overturned the sentence of Fardous Al Toum, one of the 10 female Christian students charged with “indecent dress”. She had been sentenced to a fine of 500 Sudanese pounds and 20 lashes.