Help save the life of Amina Lawal

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday September 20, 2002 17:00 by Mags

Sign the petition on-line

Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman, has been sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock She is to buried up to her neck in the ground, after which her punishers will surround her and throw rocks at her head until her skull is crushed and she dies a painful and horrible death.

She has only twenty days to appeal her trial. Please go to the Amnesty International site,

http://www.mertonai.org/amina/

and sign the letter addressed to the President of
Nigeria.

It literally takes only a minute, and could help to save her life, as well as help put an end to this kind of cruel and disgraceful judgement.