Ms Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP called for mercy to be...

Ms Dana Rosemary Scallon MEP called for mercy to be shown to a Nigerian woman facing death by stoning for adultery. Ms Scallon launched an e-mail campaign to raise awareness of the plight of Mrs Amina Lawal Kurami, 31, who was sentenced to death by stoning in the summer of 2002 after an Islamic sharia law court found she had a child out of wedlock. The Connacht-Ulster MEP said she had sent an e-mail appeal to some 7,000 people in European institutions, urging them to call for the sentence to be appealed. "I want the court to be merciful to her, she is a young mother," said Ms Scallon. "For a young mother whose only 'crime' is to have a child out of wedlock to be buried up to her neck and stoned to death is an injustice." Ms Scallon said she did not wish to interfere in the Nigerian justice system, but was merely calling for mercy.