Sudan: Woman sentenced to death by stoning  The Sudanese Victims
of Torture Group WLUML joins the efforts of the Sudanese Victims
of Torture Group, and continues to request your intervention in
this case. Please continue to send letters to the Sudanese
authorities as the charges against her have not been dismissed.
ROME, Feb 10 (AFP) -- Sudan's Supreme Court has overturned a
death-by-stoning sentence imposed by a Sharia law court on a
woman accused of adultery following international pressure, a
Christian religious community announced here Sunday.  The Rome-
based charitable community of Sant'Egidio said it had been
informed late Saturday by the Sudanese government that the death
sentence imposed under Sharia law on Abok Alfa Akok "has been
reversed by the Supreme Court". Sant'Egidio and other non-
government organisations including Human Rights Watch had led
pressure on Sudan, calling of President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir
and members of his government to save the woman's life. Roman
Catholic Cardinal Roberto Tuc