Sudan admitted for the first time that a young Christian...

Sudan admitted for the first time that a young Christian woman had been condemned to death by stoning for adultery. However, it added that the sentence had been commuted to flogging because it was considered "inappropriate.
"The penalty was inappropriate, severe and excessive, and was consequently commuted to flogging," Minister of Justice Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin told the independent daily Al-Ayam. It was the first official statement concerning Abok Alfa Akok (18), who was condemned by a court in the western city of Nyala on December 8, 2001 to death by stoning.