There is no justice for a bride in Sudan who has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry after he allegedly raped her. Nor Husseim, 19, was handed the death penalty after her husband’s family refused to receive financial compensation for his murder. Abdulrahman Hammed was discovered dead at the family’s marital home. Ms Hussein married Hammed at the age of 16 and was forced to move in with him when she finished school in April 2017, the court was told. The Sharia-law bound Criminal Court of Omdurman, the country’s second largest city, heard how Ms Hussein ran away from their home, which angered Hammad, according to her lawyer Ahmed Sebair. The husband then allegedly raped her while his male cousins pinned the 19-year-old down. But it wasn’t until the next day, when the couple were alone and Hammed tried to rape her again, that Ms Hussein defended herself, fatally stabbing Hammed with a knife. According to witnesses present at the trial, Ms Hussein...