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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8131

18 January 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/nigeria
New call for clemency in application of sharia

Strasbourg, 17/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, Scottish Conservative John Corrie, co-President of the ACP/EU Assembly, called on the new President of the European Parliament to write to the President of Nigeria to request that Islamic sharia law not be applied with regard to women who commit adultery. The Nigerian courts decided to postpone until 18 March 2002 their ruling on the sentence of death by stoning of Safiya Husaini (Nicole Fontaine has sent the Nigerian President a letter...

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