Amina Lawal

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Amina Lawal (* 1972 or 1973) was sentenced to death by stoning by a Nigerian Shari'a court in 2002 because she was divorced and expecting a child. Amina Lawal's case caused an international sensation and numerous campaigns. Western governments condemned the decision, as did the Nigerian interior minister.

Life

Amina Lawal was married at the age of 14 and had never attended school. When she became pregnant as a divorced woman , she was tried for adultery in a northern Nigerian Sharia court . In March 2002, she was sentenced to death by stoning. Lawal had no legal representative in the process. The stated father denied sexual intercourse and charges against him were dropped.

In June 2002, the sentence was suspended until January 2004 so that Lawal could look after her child for the first few years. The death sentence itself was upheld by an appeals court in August 2002. After months of postponement, the appeal against the judgment was successful in September 2003 because the Sharia in northern Nigeria was only introduced after conception. One of the two lawyers who represented Amina Lawal in court was human rights activist Hauwa Ibrahim .

Amina Lawal then lived with her daughter Wassila with her father, his two wives and their children. She married again in April 2004.

Before Amina Lawal, Safiya Hussaini's case had received international attention.

See also

literature

  • Monica Z. Utsey: Nigerian Mother Charged with Adultery Will Not Be Stoned . In: The Crisis November – December 2003 ISSN  0011-1422 , p. 12 ( online copy in Google Book Search USA ).
  • "Political Shari'a"? Human Rights And Islamic Law In Northern Nigeria . Human Rights Watch, September 2004, Volume 16, Issue 9 ( online copy in Google Book Search - USA )
  • Hatem Elliesie & Isa Hayatu Chiroma: Islam, Islamic Law and Human Rights in the Nigerian Context. In: Hatem Elliesie (Hrsg./Editor), Islam und Menschenrechte (Islam and Human Rights / الإسلام وحقوق الإنسان), Leipzig Contributions to Orient Research, Volume 26, Contributions to Islamic Law VII, Frankfurt a. M. / New York et al. 2010, pp. 155-171. ISBN 978-3-631-57848-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CNN: Woman sentenced to stoning freed
  2. ↑ Monica Z. Utsey: Nigerian Mother Charged with Adultery Will Not Be Stoned . In The Crisis , November-December 2003 issue, ISSN  0011-1422 , p. 12 ( online copy in Google Book Search - USA )
personal data
SURNAME Lawal, Amina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian woman sentenced to stoning by a Sharia court
DATE OF BIRTH 1972 or 1973