Safiya Hussaini

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Safiya Hussaini is a mother of seven from Sokoto in Nigeria and a victim of the hadd punishment who has become known worldwide .

Life

Hussaini was divorced in early 2000, but had a child born after wedlock in February 2001. Her devout Muslim neighbors filed charges against Safiya Hussaini for adultery and fornication . According to the guidelines of the sacred criminal law , Hussaini was sentenced to death by stoning on October 9, 2001 .

In court, Hussaini had stated that she had been raped several times by her neighbor Yakubu Abubakar and that he had already confessed to two police officers. However, Yakubu Abubakar denied this information in court and was acquitted. The court then did not believe Safiya Hussaini, since under Muslim law a woman is only believed if at least four men testify to exonerate her.

The verdict caused a sensation far beyond Nigeria and led to global protests. Among other things, the European Union called for the judgment to be suspended.

In the appeal hearing on March 25, 2002, on the advice of her lawyers (including the human rights activist Hauwa Ibrahim ), whom she received through financial aid from abroad, she named her ex-husband as the father of the baby , because according to Muslim beliefs and legal opinion There is a possibility that a woman could have what is known as a “sleeping pregnancy ”. After that, a fertilized egg cell can “fall asleep” and a child can develop from it years after sexual intercourse, in this case also a long time after the divorce .

Another possibility opened up for Safiya Hussaini, because at the time of conception in her hometown the Muslim legal system, the Sharia , was not yet in force .

The judges therefore decided in 2002 not to pursue the case any further and closed the case without a judgment .

The Italian journalist Raffaele Masto met Safiya Hussaini while reporting on the trial and later wrote her biography in collaboration with her. In 2002 Safiya Hussaini also received honorary citizenship of the city of Rome. After the trial, she remarried and now lives in Sokoto with her new husband and two daughters. Of her five other children, three live with their birth father and two died.

See also

literature

  • Jerome B. Taxi: Biopsy interpretation: the frozen section. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia PA 2010, ISBN 978-0-7817-6779-8 , English
  • Safiya Hussaini, Raffaele Masto ; Theda Krohm-Linke (translator): Me, Safiya: sentenced to death by stoning. Blanvalet, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-36485-5
  • 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. ↑ a b c Safiya Hussaini escapes stoning in Die Welt, March 26, 2002
  2. ↑ a b c Stoning judgment in Nigeria. How Safiya Hussain is fighting for her life on Spiegel Online from March 18, 2002
  3. ^ Karen MacGregor: Nigerian court allows adultery appeal on the Independent's website, Jan. 15, 2002
  4. ↑ a b Nigerian Woman Condemned to Death by Stoning Is Acquitted . In: New York Times , March 26, 2002
  5. ^ Northeastern University School of Law accessed January 23, 2010
  6. ↑ Monika Tworuschka, Udo Tworuschka: The world of religions: history, beliefs, present . Wissenmedia Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-577-14521-3 , p. 265 ( limited online copy in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ Publisher's information on Safiya Hussaini ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Randomhouse (accessed January 16, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.randomhouse.de
  8. ↑ Information about the book ( Memento of the original dated January 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on buchhandel.de (accessed January 16, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buchhandel.de
personal data
SURNAME Hussaini, Safiya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian woman sentenced to stoning by a Sharia court
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century