STONING IN SUDAN

That this House notes with concern the sentencing to death of two Sudanese women, Sadia Idriss Fadul and Amouna Abdallah Dalloum, for alleged adultery; further notes that according to Amnesty International the women were not given a lawyer during their trial, which was conducted in Arabic, which was not their first language, with no interpreter provided; further notes that their male co-defendants were released through lack of evidence; calls for the Sudanese government to commute these sentences immediately; further calls for international pressure to be exerted on the Sudanese government to recognise its responsibility to its citizens as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and urges the Sudanese government to guarantee that trials will be carried out fairly and justly and to abolish the barbaric punishment of stoning.