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Outrage over Sudanese plan to train judges to amputate criminals' limbs
By Netsanet Belay , special to CNN
CNN.com
Amnesty International is calling on the Sudanese government to rethink its
policies on corporal punishment.
Amnesty International is calling on the Sudanese government to rethink its
policies on corporal punishment.
Editor's note: Netsanet Belay, an Ethiopian national, is Amnesty
International's program director for Africa. A trained human rights lawyer, he
has worked for more than 10 years promoting and defending human rights at
local, national, regional and global levels. He spent more than two years in
prison in Ethiopia for his activism.
(CNN) -- Sudan's Deputy Chief Justice recently made the alarming announcement
that his government might start training judges to cut off the hands and legs
of convicted criminals, if doctors refuse to carry out amputations as
punishment.
Abdul Rahman Sharfi said non-cooperation over the use of such amputations would
be punished.
Adopting a defiant posture, he denied his government had ever stopped the use
of one of the most severe forms of "hudud" punishments, which are based on an
interpretation of Islamic law.
Sharfi revealed that 16 people had been subjected to amputations since 2001,
although the first reported case was that of Adam al-Muthna, 30, whose right
hand and left foot were amputated by three doctors on 14 February.
Al-Muthna had been found guilty of highway robbery.
The amputation prompted a public outcry, particularly by the Sudanese Doctors'
Union, which complained that doctors were horrified to have to break the
Hippocratic Oath -- to protect patients, and not harm them -- in order to
comply with government orders.
Amputations are just one form of cruel punishment carried out in Sudan.
Since 2005 thousands have been sentenced on counts of adultery, which carries
the punishment of flogging, and, in some cases, stoning.
Layla Ibrahim Issa Jumul was 23 years old and the mother of a six-month-old
infant when she was sentenced to death by stoning on counts of adultery by a
Sudanese judge last July.
He didn't mind that she didn't have a lawyer to defend herself, or that she
didn't understand what "stoning" meant.
The second woman to be sentenced to death by stoning in 2012, she spent two
months shackled, alone with her baby, in Omdurman prison, near the capital
Khartoum.
Both women were eventually released on appeal, following intense campaigns by
Sudanese and international human rights organizations on their behalf.
Others, though, are less fortunate.
Almost every day in Sudan, someone is given 20 to 100 lashes on a court order
for minor offenses, and following a summary trial. Many such floggings are
carried out in public.
These punishments are cruel, inhuman, degrading and may amount to torture.
They are a clear violation of international human rights law and Sudan's own
international commitments, notably the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights.
They are highly controversial within Sudan, which explains in part why the
authorities have been unable to enforce them systematically. But for those
affected, the suffering is real -- and revolting.
As Sudan reviews its constitution, it is imperative that the authorities
respect their international commitments, and address the issue of corporal
punishments and the death penalty as a matter of priority.
Such cruel punishments can no longer be tolerated. And laws need to be enforced
and respected to put an end to them once and for all.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Netsanet Belay.
© 2013 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
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