Woman sentenced to death in Yemen for shooting dead a male relative 'who tried to rape her'

A court in Yemen has sentenced a woman to death after she opened fire on a male relative who 'climbed up the wall of her house in an attempt to rape her'. Raja Hakimi was originally sentenced to two years in jail for the 'murder' of of her unnamed relative - but human rights groups both in the country and abroad say the Court of Appeal raised the sentence due to influences from the deceased's family members. Groups such as Women Journalists Without Chains say the woman acted in self-defence, calling it an 'unjust ruling, which violates all legislation and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights', Al Arabiya News reported. WJWC said that Hakimi was 'only defending herself' against the armed man, who allegedly decided to exploit the absence of the woman’s husband and rape her.

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