Changes in criminal law as Sudan annuls apostasy death sentence

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Sudan approved wide-ranging amendments to its criminal law including repealing the death penalty for apostasy as well as no longer requiring women to need a permit from male family members to travel with their children.

Women walk past graffiti reading in Arabic 'Freedom, Peace, Justice' in the Burri district of Khartoum, Sudan [Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]

According to the 1991 Criminal Law introduced by the overthrown Omar al-Bashir government, the punishment for apostasy - or the abandonment of Islam through actions or words - was stoning to death.

Public flogging will also be ended and the consumption of alcohol by non-Muslims will now be permitted. 

In a televised interview on Saturday, Sudanese Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari said the government is currently working to reform other legal provisions to incorporate them in a constitutional declaration.

"We cancelled the Article 126 of the Sudanese Criminal Law and have ensured religious freedom and the equality in citizenship and rule of law," he said.

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The minister said his ministry is working to make new personal law that will drop all discriminatory provisions against women and children. He said a commission to study laws and recommend reforms will be set up next week.

By Al- Helalee

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