{"id":13054,"date":"2018-08-28T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2018-08-28T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:23:01","slug":"teen-who-killed-her-rapist-husband-continues-her-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13054","title":{"rendered":"Teen who killed her rapist husband continues her fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The legal team representing Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein, who killed her 35-year-old husband as he tried to rape her in what she says was self-defense, filed an appeal to Sudan&#8217;s Supreme Court on<strong> <\/strong>Thursday to have her sentence overturned.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hussein was on death row for fatally stabbing Abdulrahman Mohamed Hammad until two weeks ago, when <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/06\/26\/africa\/sudan-death-sentence-noura-hussein-asequals-intl\/index.html\">an appeals court in Sudan reduced her sentence<\/a> to five years in jail following an international outcry over her case. The court ordered her family to pay 337,000 Sudanese pounds (about $18,600) in &#8220;blood money&#8221; to the man&#8217;s family.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Her lawyers have also appealed the payment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal team representing Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein, who killed her 35-year-old husband as he tried to rape her in what she says was self-defense, filed an appeal to Sudan&#8217;s Supreme Court on Thursday to have her sentence overturned.Hussein was on death row for fatally stabbing Abdulrahman Mohamed Hammad until two weeks ago, when an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}