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

 

[Johanna]

I signed it and I will definitly forward it to others...

 

[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..............

 

[FatherVic]

there's so much stupidity in this world...i think there's nothing as cruel and senseless as this

 

[Gerald]

Yes it is cruel and Yes it makes me upset.
Still it is the law of a souvereign country and i respect it- what would the ultimate answer in prevention be?
Invading it, throwing bombs and setting up a regime under your control....... welcome to the United States of Agony.
Or better vote for a party in your own land providing most supplement for 3rd world development?

 

[Melancholia]

This is horrible and brainless (( i hate it when these things happen and i feel very upset and disappointed every time i discover that there are places where women (and people generally) are treated like animals I find it very very unfair and such cultures/countries pretty violent...

No,bombs is definitely not a solution......
i don't even know what would help in such a sick case of such sick laws.....maybe teaching people the importance of life,respect for all the living and
freedom of choices would so sth.....

I'm very upset now

 

[FatherVic]

Yes it is cruel and Yes it makes me upset.
Still it is the law of a souvereign country and i respect it- what would the ultimate answer in prevention be?
Invading it, throwing bombs and setting up a regime under your control....... welcome to the United States of Agony.
Or better vote for a party in your own land providing most supplement for 3rd world development?

well this has been my point all this years...who are we to tell them they're wrong...afterall big part of their horrible reality is caused by us and the brutal colonization of Africa.

but still I think that a bit of information, education and above all the prohibition of religious based goverments would be the best starter...Oh, no more senseless invassions...no more wars for nothing...But having people killed using no more than rocks has to be stopped no matter what the cost is...and I'm not talking about the cost of bullets but the cost of words, knowledge and the patience to export it tactfully and thus succesfully...

@mel: no, they would never kill a cow like that!