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Amina Lawal and the Islamic Shari'a. (Religion).
IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, Amina Lawal, a northern Nigerian woman, was convicted of adultery after falling pregnant more than nine months after her divorce. Her sentence was to be stoned to death, but only after weaning her infant, the evidence of her offence. At the time of writing, this sentence is due to be carried out some time next year.
Amina Lawal's plight has attracted remarkable interest throughout the world. A question crying out to be asked is "Why?" On what basis did a Nigerian Islamic shari'a court come to this decision? Why should the penalty for adultery be a stoning? And why should this penalty be deferred until Amina's child is weaned?
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- Amina Lawal is free: are we?
- Magazine article from: Sister Namibia Botha, Mbuyiselo Morna, Colleen Lowe September 1, 2003 700+ words
...Shariah Appeal Court in Nigeria gave Amina Lawal "her life back", removing the spectre...mothers. Who are we to pass judgement on Amina Lawal and her daughter Wasila? The sad fact...branding. We could not bear the idea of Amina Lawal being stoned. But in our minds she...
- Standing up for Amina Lawal.(OPINION)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 25, 2003 700+ words
...hand down its decision on the appeal of Amina Lawal Thursday. Ms. Lawal was sentenced...man participated in this and yet only Amina Lawal faces death." The Feminist Majority...of Islam, but it is very real. Ask Amina Lawal. She is being tried under the intolerant...
- Both women are beautiful - but one might be stoned to death; As Miss Scotland...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) November 12, 2002 700+ words
...death. Women such as 30-year-old Amina Lawal, who was convicted under Sharia Law...what could happen post-contest to Amina Lawal. When asked about it by Eamonn Holmes...in her costume and shoved in beside Amina Lawal. As for Paula, she told Eamonn Holmes...
- "Saving Amina": global justice for women and intercultural...
- Magazine article from: Ethics & International Affairs Jaggar, Alison M. December 1, 2005 700+ words
...against the sentence of stoning to death handed down against Amina Lawal, a divorced Nigerian woman, who had had a baby outside marriage...communication with the subject line "Please Stop the International Amina Lawal Protest Letter Campaigns." The second e-message was signed...
- Amina Lawal.(People)(death sentence for adultery overturned in Nigeria)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter October 10, 2003 700+ words
* Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman condemned to death by stoning on charges of adultery, had her sentence overturned by a five-judge Islamic...
- James Whitaker column: Amina Lawal.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) September 20, 2003 700+ words
Byline: James Whitaker THE agony for Amina Lawal, the 30-year-old Nigerian lady sentenced to death by stoning for having a baby out of wedlock, should soon be over. The...
- James Whitaker's column: Amina Lawal.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) April 12, 2003 700+ words
Byline: James Whitaker MANY readers share my concern for Amina Lawal, the Nigerian lady sentenced to death. An appeal to an Islamic court will not be known until June 3 because the chief judge is...
- Waiting for judgment.(World--Nigerian Amina Lawal appealing death sentence for...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Coday, Dennis September 12, 2003 700+ words
Nigerian Amina Lawal waits in an islamic courtroom in Katsina in northern Nigeria Aug. 27. She is appealing her sentence of death by stoning under...