Muslim court frees woman in stoning case
Africa / 25 March 2002, 5:07pm /
By Emmanuel Braun
Sokoto, Nigeria - A Nigerian sharia appeal court freed a mother of five on Monday who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
She had been condemned to death despite saying she was raped, in a judgment by a lower Muslim court that sparked world outrage.
Even as 35-year-old Safiya Hussaini Tungar-Tudu smiled with relief in the northern city of Sokoto, news filtered out that another woman had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in a remote corner of a nearby state.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/muslim-court-frees-woman-in-stoning-case-83908
