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Thread #42439   Message #616445
Posted By: InOBU
26-Dec-01 - 05:23 AM
Thread Name: Nigerian Woman to be murdered - now acquitted
Subject: Urgent, Nigerian Woman to be murdered
Please read the following article and use this URL to reach the Nigerian embassy or consulate nearest you...

http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/nigeria1.htm

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Bid Launched to Save Woman from Being Stoned to Death

DEC. 20, 2001, Numerous groups have responded to Amnesty International´s campaign to save the life of Safiya Tungar-Tudu, a 33-year-old Nigerian condemned to death for having a child outside of wedlock.

According to the Islamic law applied in some Nigerian states, at the end of this month the woman will be lowered into a hole, buried up to her chest, and then stoned to death by the people of her village.

Tungar-Tudu is confined to her cabin, where she nurses the child who has become the cause of her death sentence.

Organizers of the campaign request that letters be sent to Nigerian embassies, appealing to the Nigerian president to pardon the woman. She was sentenced to death Oct. 9 by an Islamic court of the state of Sokoto.