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[Razvan Ion]

BlankAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CASE:

Hearing on AMINA LAWAL--sentenced to be stoned--IS SET

FOR 27 AUGUST

2003



The Nigerian Supreme Court has upheld the death

sentence for Amina Lawal, 

condemned for the crime of adultery on August 19th

2002, is to be buried up 

to her neck and stoned to death.  Her death was

postponed so that she could 

continue to nurse her baby.  The 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 

(please don't simply forward it since you will be

giving the next person 

much unnecessary verbiage) and send it to everyone in

your address book.



To sign the petition, go to the web page:



http://www.amnesty.org.au/e-card/petition.asp 



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