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Nigeria vows to prevent stoning

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Saturday November 9, 2002

BBC, Nov. 9, 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
By Dan Isaacs

Amid growing controversy over the staging of the Miss World beauty pageant in Nigeria, the government has made it clear that it will if necessary intervene to save the life of a woman sentenced to death by stoning under Islamic law.

A statement issued by junior foreign minister Dubem Onyia said that the country’s constitution would be used to thwart any negative ruling in the case of Ramadan.

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