'Ugliest crime': Outcry in Sudan over lack of justice for killing of teenage girl

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Ugliest crime': Outcry in Sudan over lack of justice for killing of teenage girl

Death of Samah el-Hadi, allegedly shot by her father, has led to outpouring of women sharing own stories of domestic violence

Zeinab Mohammed Salih
Fri 26 Mar 2021 07.15 GMT

Thousands of people have signed a petition urging the Sudanese government to take action against a man released without charge by police after his 13-year-old daughter was shot dead.

Samah el-Hadi was shot three times and run over by a car, reports said. Neighbours have taken to social media to blame her father, who was briefly questioned by the authorities but released after telling them Samah had taken her own life. No postmortem was carried out on the girl’s body.

Samah is alleged to have died last Friday in Omdurman after a row with her father over a school she wanted to attend. Her death has led to an outpouring of stories on social media by Sudanese women sharing their own experiences of domestic violence.

In the same city on Thursday, a 19-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband and buried by her family before the police became involved, according to Kaltoum Fadlallah, a poet and novelist who was among the group of women which handed in the petition of more than 2,000 names to the public prosecutor’s office in Khartoum this week, urging him to reopen the Samah el-Hadi case.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/26/ugliest-outcry-in-sudan-over-lack-of-justice-for-killing-of-teenage-girl

[niyad]

1. Simply heartbreaking.