Join us to save Amina Lawal

Amina Lawal is a young woman who is sentenced to death by stoning, under the Islamic law in Nigeria, for having extra marital relationship. Her court hearing will be held on June 3^rd 2003^. The court will decide when her stoning sentence will be carried out.

In the light of the international pressure, we have been able to annul Safiyeh Hosseini’s stoning sentence in Nigeria and suspend stoning in Iran. We must continue our fight to a complete abolishment of stoning and all other cruel Islamic punishments. The brutal act of stoning must not be tolerated in the 21^st century.

The International Committee against Stoning is initiating a mass protest against Amina Lawal’s sentence and calls upon all women and civil rights' organisations worldwide to participate in these rallies and join forces to end the practice of stoning.

International Committee against Stoning

May 6, 2003

Tuesday May 27, 2003

Rally in front of all the Nigerian embassies around the world and European Parliament in Brussels- Belgium

Tuesday June 3, 2003

Rally in front of all the Nigerian embassies and in front of the court in Nigeria

For more information regarding the rallies please contact these phone numbers:

Denmark

Nahid Riazi, Tel: +4540543992

Holland

Fereshteh Moradi, Tel: +31651273261

Belgium

Hossin Pisheh Ehsan, Tel: +32478904163

Sweden

Parvin Kaboli +46707656362

Esmaile Molodi +46704920349

Germany

Shahnaz Moratab +491729716227 (Frankfort)

Togra Gharagozloo +49 1787321667(Berlin)

Mina Ahadi +491775692413

Austria - Vienna

+491775692413

Norway

Tel: +4792062541

Turkey

Nazmiye Halvasi +9005553596555, +9005322446607

UK

Time: Tuesday May 27, at 11:00 am

Location: Nigerian embassy

9 Northumberland Avenue

London, WC2N 5BX(nearest tube station is Charing Cross or Embankment)

Shiva Mahbobi, Tel: +447984445278

Please continue to send protest letters to the Nigerian government. A sample protest letter and Nigerian contact addresses are provided in our website at: www.stopstoningnow.com