Amina Lawal holding "exhibit A" in a court case
which has echoed round the world.
"LET'S SAVE AMINA"
(A Gauteng Greens initiative)

The judge ruled that 30-year-old Amina Lawal will be executed once she has weaned her eight-month-old daughter, which the Judge rulled will be by January 2003.

On 19th August, 2002 The Funtua court granted defence lawyers 30 days to appeal, which they have said they will do. Amina Lawal was escorted away in tears by her lawyers who have promised to challenge the decision all the way to the Supreme court.

Let's Toyi-Toyi (Protest) on line

Lets all send the following letter to President Obasanjo of Nigeria, President Obasanjo has the power to commute Lawal's sentence if she loses her appeal at the Supreme Court.

Your Excellency,

I am writing to express our concern about the sentence of death by stoning which was passed on Ms Amina Lawal, on 22 March, by a local court at Bakori in Katsina State.

It was particularly distressing to learn about this judgement in view of the recent and very welcome decision by the Appeal Court in Sokoto State to uphold the appeal of Ms Safiya Hussaini, who had also been sentenced to be stoned to death.

The sentence on Ms Lawal has provoked a world-wide wave of shock and revulsion. There is general disbelief that Nigerian women, living in a democracy, could be sentenced to such a cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment, which runs completely counter to the International Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

I urge you to use your wisdom of office and growing international respect to ensure that this sentence is not carried out.

Please ensure that all citizens of Nigeria - men and women - are protected by the rule of law, and in accordance with international standards of human rights, from such cruel, inhumane and degrading punishments as the sentence passed on Ms Amina Lawal.

Yours sincerely

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The President of Nigeria can also be contacted
through his Senior Special
Assistant at
ssa@nopa.net

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"Merton Amnesty Group"

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