THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT IS COMING UNDER INCREASING INTERNATIONAL PRESS...

World | March 26, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00

The Nigerian Government is coming under increasing international pressure to amend laws in northern Muslim areas which call for punishments such as stoning, amputation and flogging. Although one woman, Safiya Huseini, won her appeal on Monday against a sentence of death by stoning for committing adultery, another has now been sentenced to the same punishment.

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