Nigeria overturns stoning sentence
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A Nigerian Islamic appeal court has freed a pregnant woman sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock. Judge Mohammed Mustapha Umar said the conviction
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Warning to courts to overturn judgments that have weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime.
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WHERE: Saudi Arabia, where beheading is the punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Human Rights groups say the number of executions has risen sharply and is already above 100 this year.
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A Nigerian state official confirms that at least seven people have been executed, despite earlier denials.
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A court in northern Nigeria has sentenced two women to death by stoning for allegedly committing adultery, and both will soon appeal the sentences, a human rights group said Friday.
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a two-year prison term for one of Algeria's best known journalists in a case seen by many as a pretext to crush press freedom in this North African country.
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A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the provisional release of separatist leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo, who had been held since 2005 on treason charges.
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A Nigerian court Friday granted the jailed Biafran separatist leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, three months bail to enable him attend his mother's funeral, court officials said.
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THERE is no doubt that Nigeria is blessed; her citizens, therefore, should not suffer. However, the reverse is presently the case.
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A woman convicted of murder and given a life sentence in the stabbing death of a teenage rival lost a new bid for freedom Tuesday in her long-running appeals battle.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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years in jail, overturning his conviction for sodomy in a shock ruling expected to win support for the new prime minister. freedom to urge the country&#39;s recently installed prime minister to drive harder on reform.
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Kenneth Foster, whose death sentence has raised international protest, won a rare commutation to life in prison.
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Nigeria holds the final ceremony inaugurating the spiritual head of the country's estimated 70 million Muslims.
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Nigeria's court of appeal has ruled that President Olusegun Obasanjo had no legal power to sack of his deputy president for having joined an opposition party.
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A tribunal on Monday upheld President Olusegun Obasanjo's victory last year in Nigeria's first-ever civilian-run election, saying some balloting fraud had occurred but that the graft did not change the outcome of the vote.
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Sweden's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the man convicted of murdering Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his sentence in prison rather than in psychiatric care, reversing a contentious decision by a lower court.