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Place of Birth: Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria
About Amina Lawal
- Amina Lawal Kurami (born 1972) is a Nigerian woman.
- On March 22, 2002, an Islamic Sharia court (in Funtua, Nigeria in the northern state of Katsina) sentenced her to death by stoning for adultery and for conceiving a child out of wedlock.
- The person she identified as the father of the child was not prosecuted for lack of evidence and deemed innocent by the court without any DNA tests.Lawal's conviction sparked an international controversy.
- It was overturned by a Sharia Court of Appeals which ruled that it violated Islamic law, and she later remarried.
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