DE TOUTE URGENCE
Publié : mar. 26 août 2003 11:18
De toute Urgence, ouvrez le site : http://www.amnesty.org.au/women/action-letter09.html
C'est le 27 août qu'Amina Lawal va passer en appel. Pour la fête de la Dormition de la Mère de Dieu. C'est cela aussi, l'Islam.
Il faut immédiatement signer la pétition. Elle encourt la lapidation à mort si l'appel est rejeté. Je n'ai pas le temps de traduire.
Extrait :
Amina Lawal -- a Muslim woman -- was found guilty by a court in March 2002 after bearing a child outside marriage. Under "Sharia Penal Legislations" now in force in several northern Nigerian states, this was sufficient for her to be convicted of the crime of adultery and summoned to appear before a Sharia tribunal to respond to a "crime" which now carries a punishment of death by stoning according to new "Sharia penal legislations" introduced in Nigeria in 1999
The man named as the father of her baby girl reportedly denied having sex with her and his statement was enough for the charges against him to be discontinued.
On 19 August 2002, a Sharia court of appeal in Funtua took the decision to uphold the sentence of death by stoning imposed on Amina Lawal. This confirmation of the sentence shocked the civil society in and outside Nigeria, especially all those who have been actively campaigning for Amina's rights to be protected. Amina did not have a lawyer during her first trial, when the judgement was passed. She now has legal representation and has filed an appeal against her sentence. Amina is awaiting trial at home.
The first hearing of the appeal was scheduled for 27 May 2002, but has been adjourned repeatedly and is now scheduled for 27 August 2003. Although Amina is not in detention, such a long adjournment of the case would have not served any useful purpose and would have deepened the climate of uncertainty created by the whole process.
Éliazar <eliazar-mv@wanadoo.fr>
C'est le 27 août qu'Amina Lawal va passer en appel. Pour la fête de la Dormition de la Mère de Dieu. C'est cela aussi, l'Islam.
Il faut immédiatement signer la pétition. Elle encourt la lapidation à mort si l'appel est rejeté. Je n'ai pas le temps de traduire.
Extrait :
Amina Lawal -- a Muslim woman -- was found guilty by a court in March 2002 after bearing a child outside marriage. Under "Sharia Penal Legislations" now in force in several northern Nigerian states, this was sufficient for her to be convicted of the crime of adultery and summoned to appear before a Sharia tribunal to respond to a "crime" which now carries a punishment of death by stoning according to new "Sharia penal legislations" introduced in Nigeria in 1999
The man named as the father of her baby girl reportedly denied having sex with her and his statement was enough for the charges against him to be discontinued.
On 19 August 2002, a Sharia court of appeal in Funtua took the decision to uphold the sentence of death by stoning imposed on Amina Lawal. This confirmation of the sentence shocked the civil society in and outside Nigeria, especially all those who have been actively campaigning for Amina's rights to be protected. Amina did not have a lawyer during her first trial, when the judgement was passed. She now has legal representation and has filed an appeal against her sentence. Amina is awaiting trial at home.
The first hearing of the appeal was scheduled for 27 May 2002, but has been adjourned repeatedly and is now scheduled for 27 August 2003. Although Amina is not in detention, such a long adjournment of the case would have not served any useful purpose and would have deepened the climate of uncertainty created by the whole process.
Éliazar <eliazar-mv@wanadoo.fr>