Pressure grows on Tanzania to free victim of domestic violence who has been on death row for 13 years

A coalition of 24 human rights groups condemned Limbu’s sentence as part of an appeal over the plight of women on death row throughout Africa. Photograph: David McNew/Getty

Pressure is mounting on the Tanzanian government to release a woman with severe intellectual disabilities who has been in prison awaiting execution for 13 years.

Lemi Limbu, who is now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015. A survivor of brutal and repeated sexual and domestic violence, she has the developmental age of a child.