A Sudanese teenager was sentenced to death by a court for stabbing her husband to death as he raped her.
Noura Hussein, 19, was forced by her parents to marry her cousin when she was only 16. She was forced to sign the marriage contract in 2014. She then escaped to a relative's house in eastern Sudan before the wedding ceremony was completed.
She was away for three years, but her father found her and tricked her into returning to her husband. Hussein refused to have sex with her husband after she was returned to him. After six days of refusal, her husband recruited some of his cousins to help him hold her down so he could rape her.
He succeeded the first time, but the second time he attempted to rape her again, she stabbed him to death before returning to her family, who then handed her over to police.
