Death Sentence in Nigeria, HELP

[oe]

The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal. Please sign the petition.

The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Amina Lawal, condemned for the crime of adultery on August 19th 2002, to be buried up to her neck and stoned to death. Her death was postponed so that she could continue to nurse her baby. Hearing on her Execution is now set for 27 AUGUST 2003.

If you haven't been following this case, you might like to know that Amina's baby is regarded as the 'evidence' of her adultery. Amina's case is being handled by the Spanish branch of Amnesty International, which is attempting to put together enough signatures to make the Nigerian government rescind the death sentence. A similar campaign saved another Nigerian woman, Safiya, condemned in similar circumstances. By March 4th the petition had amassed over 2,600,000 signatures. It will only take you a few seconds to sign Amnesty's online petition. Please sign the petition now, then copy this message into a new email and send it to everyone in your address book.

Go to the web page
http://www.amnesty.org.au/e-card/petition.asp

 

[Iris]

Good idea to put this in a forum!!


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Iris

 

[delt]

what a fucking horrible thing to do, bury her up to the neck and stone her to death. who the hell thinks of things like this??!?

: Amina confessed to having had a child while divorced. Pregnancy outside
: of marriage constitutes sufficient evidence for a woman to be convicted of
: adultery according to the new Shari'ah-based penal code for Muslims,
: introduced in Katsina state.

First of all she didn't cheat on any man, wtf is this??

: The man named as the father of her baby girl reportedly
: denied having sex with her and his statement was enough
: for the charges against him to be discontinued.

oh, this is fair.

one fucking sick "justice" system they have there..............

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Petition signed. Sick sons of bitches.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

yea!!

 

[Nightshade]

You know, I just don't understand. There are a lot of people living with these rules. They all seem OK with it. They're willing to kill others over it. I think the single most surprising thing I ever saw was a Muslim female's picture in my local newspaper as a terrorism suspect. To me, it almost makes up for the whole "fast food, microwave oven, television and daycare" thing. Damn.