After an international outcry, Noura Hussein has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail.

Supporters of 19-year-old Noura Hussein say they’re elated at the Sudan Supreme Court’s decision to quash the verdict of premeditated murder against  her.

A global petition for this attracted more than a million signatures.

Hussein told the court that her husband got his cousins to hold her down while he raped her.

When he tried to repeat this the following day, she turned on him with a knife.

The case has underlined the issue of forced marriage, including of minors, and women’s rights in the Sudanese courts system.

Her family’s been ordered to pay a quarter of a million rands in blood money to the victim’s family.

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