An 18-year-old pregnant teenager from Ethiopia who was gang-raped has been convicted by a Sudanese court of “indecent acts”. The Guardian reports that the woman was sentenced to one month in prison, which has been suspended, and fined 5,000 Sudanese pounds (€640). The victim, who’s a migrant from Ethiopia, was searching for a new home in Khartom when she was lured into an empty area and attacked and gang-raped by seven men – it was filmed and shared across social media six months later which lead to the arrests. She was initially charged with adultery and faced a possible sentence of death by stoning but the charges were dropped when the court accepted that she was divorced. According to The Guardian, since the woman’s arrest, she has been kept in police cells and her requests for a transfer to a medical facility have been refused. The newspaper states that three of the men were convicted of adultery and were sentenced to 100 lashes and two were sentenced for indecent acts, fines and 40 lashes. The man who shared the video on social media received a fine and was sentenced to 40 lashes while the seventh was freed due to insufficient evidence. "The levelling of immigration charges against the victim further denies her protection by the state and protracts the punishment and emotional stress against her whilst she has been subjected to the most brutal of crimes," said Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa regional director Hala Elkarib. "Women migrants and IDPs [internally displaced persons] are some of the most marginalised people in Sudan and most vulnerable to violence, abuse and persecution. “The Sudanese judiciary today has demonstrated its incapacity to protect the most vulnerable in society and instead attempt to delegitimise those that experience abuse at the hands of its citizens." BBC News reports that the woman now faces deportation.