Sudan executed two people, the first executions since 2016. Fewer death sentences were imposed, that is eight, compared to 17 in 2017. The then President Omer al-Bashir granted pardons to five death row prisoners – Ibrahim Abdel-Rahman Saffi al-Nur, Yahia Abbaker Musa al-Nur, Ibrahim Ali al-Rashid Abdel-Gadir, Mohamed Ibrahim al-Doma and Azrag Daldoom Adam Haroun – who are members of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, according to the Amnesty report. The Court of Appeal commuted the death sentence of one person, Noura Hussein. Hussein, a young Sudanese woman, was sentenced to death in May 2018 for killing the man she was forced to marry as he tried to rape her. Her sentence was overturned following a global outrage.
