Lagos, Nigeria — Nigeria may contravene the UN convention on the rights of the child if the punishment prescribed for an unmarried pregnant teenager by an Islamic Sharia court in the northern state of Zamfara is carried out.
The accused, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, 17, was sentenced to 180 strokes of the cane last week for fornication and lying.
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