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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Amina Lawal</title>
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		<title>Stoning trial woman &#8216;never afraid&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) &#8211;Spared death by stoning for adultery, 32-year-old Amina Lawal told The Associated Press on Tuesday she hopes to return to her Muslim village in northern Nigeria and one day remarry.
Lawal, a divorced single mother who can neither read nor write, cradled her nearly 2-year-old girl as she spoke.
She drew a red scarf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Mother Wins Appeal Against Stoning Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KATSINA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A Nigerian court on Thursday spared a woman from being stoned to death by overturning an Islamic court&#8217;s conviction for adultery, easing pressure on the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Western governments led by the European Union had urged Obasanjo to intervene in the case involving Amina Lawal who was convicted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anger over adultery stoning case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters call on the South African government to intervene in the case. 
    
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa &#8212; Pressure is mounting on the Nigerian government to spare the life of a Muslim woman condemned to death by stoning for adultery.
An Islamic court in the northern Nigerian city of Katsina will next week rule on whether to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian woman may escape stoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigerian woman may escape stoning, Quebec lawyer says
Amina Lawal got a death sentence last year for having a child two years after her divorce
It was under Islamic law that Amina Lawal was sentenced to death by stoning, but it is Islamic law that could ultimately save the young Nigerian mother&#8217;s life if all goes well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amina Lawal: Sharia Appeal Court Judgement Sept. 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharia Court of Appeal sitting in Katsina has reserved judgment till September 25 in the appeal case filed by Aminat Lawal against the death penalty passed on her by the Bakari Sharia Court last year in the state.
An Upper Sharia court in Funtua had upheld the sentence passed an Aminat Lawal before the case was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Amina</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2003 16:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five million people signed a petition to save this Nigerian woman from being stoned to death next month. But, say experts, the protest is mistaken and may even harm her cause. Libby Brooks investigates 
The Guardian (England), May 8, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
 Over the past week, the Rev Louise Franklin, a United Reformed church minister from Ilford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Information About Amnesty International&#8217;s Campaign on Amina Lawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2003 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International, May 6, 2003 (Press Release)
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
Amnesty International today moved to correct misleading information falsely attributed to one of the web pages of the Spanish section of Amnesty International. Information has been widely distributed by email falsely claiming that Amina Lawal&#8217;s execution had been set for 3 June 2003 and referring to Amnesty International as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria vows to prevent stoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria promises to spare mother from stoning after Miss World row</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent (England), Nov. 9, 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/
By Andrew Clennell
The Nigerian government has promised to prevent the stoning to death of a woman condemned by a religious court. A minister intervened yesterday in an attempt to end the controversy surrounding Nigeria&#8217;s hosting of the Miss World competition.
At least five contestants have said they will pull out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miss World boycott over Nigerian stoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2002 23:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN, Sep. 7, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/
PARIS, France &#8211;The reigning Miss France has said she will boycott the Miss World pageant in Nigeria in protest at a death by stoning sentence given to a woman there for having sex outside of marriage.
Sylvie Tellier told France-Inter radio that she felt a moral responsibility to pull out of the November [...]]]></description>
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