Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 28, 2003
Ireland

Dana Rosemary Scallon, MEP for Connacht and Ulster,...

Dana Rosemary Scallon, MEP for Connacht and Ulster, handed in a letter to Dublin's Nigerian Ambassador appealing for help in the case of Mrs Amina Lawal Kurami, sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock

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Dana Rosemary Scallon, MEP for Connacht and Ulster, handed in a letter to Dublin's Nigerian Ambassador appealing for help in the case of Mrs Amina Lawal Kurami, sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock. Scallon asked more that 7,000 people to write to the Nigerian Ambassador in their countries and said that everything possible must be done to help save the Nigerian woman's life. Mrs Kurami, 30, was sentenced on March 22, 2002 after she was found guilty of adultery under Nigeria's interpretation of the Sharia Law.
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  • (Sources: Belfast News Letter, 28/02/2003)