Nigeria: Amina Lawal's Appeal is Won!

press release

Today the Katsina State Sharia Court of Appeal has vindicated Ms. Amina Lawal's appeal against her conviction for adultery and sentence of stoning to death. A four to one majority of the full five judge panel upheld every single one of the grounds of the appeal.

The Sharia court held that pregnancy outside of marriage is not proof of adultery, that Ms. Lawal's alleged confession was no confession in law, and, that her rights of defence had not been properly recognised in the lower courts.

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