**Tanzanian Court Quashes Conviction of Woman with Intellectual Disabilities, Orders Retrial** A woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after more than a decade on death row. Lemi Limbu, now in her early 30s, was convicted of murdering her daughter in 2015. On 4 March, a court in Shinyanga, northern Tanzania, declared that she can appeal, paving the way for a retrial. However, a date for the retrial has yet to be set. Limbu's case has sparked widespread condemnation from lawyers and activists, who argue that she should not have been imprisoned in the first place. She is a survivor of brutal and repeated sexual and domestic violence and has the developmental age of a child. According to Tanzanian and international law, Limbu should not be held criminally liable due to her intellectual disability. "She was not supposed to be in prison in the first place," said Anna Henga, executive director of the *Legal and Human Rights Centre*, a Tanzanian human rights advocacy organisation. Limbu's original conviction was nullified in 2019 due to procedural errors. In 2022, she was retried and sentenced to death a second time. The court did not allow evidence to be heard from medical professionals about her intellectual disabilities or history of abuse. A clinical psychologist who evaluated her had concluded that she had a severe intellectual disability and the developmental age of a 10-year-old child or younger. Limbu's background is marked by trauma and abuse. She grew up in a household where her father beat her mother and was repeatedly raped by men in her village. She gave birth to her first child at the age of 15 and suffered domestic violence in her subsequent marriages. Her youngest child, Tabu, was found strangled in 2011, and Limbu was subsequently arrested and charged with her murder. A coalition of 24 African and international human rights groups last year condemned Limbu's sentence as part of an appeal to the African court on human and peoples' rights to look at the plight of women on death row throughout Africa. In July, four UN human rights experts wrote a letter to the government of Tanzania expressing concern about Limbu's case and the broader issue of women with intellectual disabilities facing the death penalty in the country. The court's decision to order a retrial has raised concerns that Limbu's case may drag on for another decade or more. "I'm happy that [her conviction] has been quashed and the appeal has been allowed, but I'm sad because the court ordered a retrial, which is like starting again [after] the case has already taken more than 10 years," said Henga. "My worry is that it could take up to another 10 years if there are more delays."