TAILIEUCHUNG - Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria

On 19 August 2002, Amina Lawal of Kurami village in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State, a divorcee of 30 years of age, lost the appeal of her sentence of death by stoning for extramarital sexual intercourse, which had been imposed by a shari a court in the town of Bakori in March of the same year on the strength of a pregnancy out of wedlock. The upper shari a court that handled the appeal did not accept Lawal’s withdrawal of her initial confession and confirmed the verdict of first instance | Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria Politics Religion Judicial Practice Gunnar J. Weimann Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria Lay out Gunnar J. Weimann Zoetermeer. Cover illustration View of the city of Kano Gunnar J. Weimann Zoetermeer. Cover design René Staelenberg Amsterdam. ISBN 978 90 5629 655 1 NUR 740 Gunnar J. Weimann I Vossiuspers UvA - Amsterdam University Press 2010 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above no part of this book may be reproduced stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the .

• Luật học
• Regulating Deviance
• Criminal Law
• Criminalisation
• Preventative Justice
• Human Rights
• Penal Populism