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A similar cross-amputation sentence was issued and enforced in 2021. [40] Until the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Sudanese government condoned certain discriminatory practices against Christians living in the North. For instance, it mandated that all students in the North study Islam in school, regardless of their religious beliefs.
Capital punishment in Sudan is legal under Article 27 of the Sudanese Criminal Act 1991. [1] The Act is based on Sharia law which prescribes both the death penalty and corporal punishment, such as amputation. [ 2 ]
Cross amputation survivors, Adam Ismaeel (left) and Ibrahim Osman (right), of the September 1983 Laws in Sudan, pictured in 1986 Cross-amputation ( Arabic : قطع من خلاف ) is one of the Hudud punishments prescribed under Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia law) and involves cutting off the right hand and left foot of the alleged transgressor.
The Criminal Act of 1991 in Sudan was enacted to align the country's legal system with Islamic principles, incorporating Shari'a law.It replaced the Penal Code of 1983 and includes provisions for hudud (fixed punishments for severe crimes like theft and adultery), qisas (retributive justice for murder or bodily harm), and ta'zir (discretionary punishments for less severe offenses).
Punished with death followed by crucifixion, amputation of the right hand and the left foot (the combined right-left double amputation procedure is known as the ancient punishment of "cross-amputation") or banishment. Different punishments are prescribed for different scenarios and there are differences of opinion regarding specifics within and ...
In September 1983, President Jaafar Nimeiri introduced sharia law in Sudan, known as September 1983 laws, symbolically disposing of alcohol and implementing hudud punishments like public amputations. The Islamic economy followed in early 1984, eliminating interest and instituting zakat. Nimeiri declared himself the imam of the Sudanese Umma in ...
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.
In practice, Sudan treated Islam as the state religion and expected it to inspire the country's laws, institutions, and policies in the North. The Interim National Constitution was less emphatic on this point and stated explicitly that Sudan was a “multireligious country” where diversity meant coexistence.