World|World news | The Guardian|Mar 19
Woman has sentence quashed by Tanzania court after over a decade on death row
A woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than a decade in prison awaiting execution. On 4 March, a court in Shinyanga, northern Tanzania, declared she can appeal. “She was not supposed to be in prison in the first place,” said Anna Henga, executive director of Legal and Human Rights Centre, a Tanzanian human rights advocacy organisation.
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