Safiya Hussaini

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Charge:	Adultery
Sentence:	Death
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Year Convicted:	2001
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Nigeria
County or Region of Crime:	Sokoto
City of Crime:	Gwadabawa
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Safiya Hussaini was wrongly convicted on October 12, 2001 of adultery and sentenced to death. Hussaini's defense was that she was raped by the man, but the Sharia court dismissed her testimony and convicted her based on her admission to having had sex outside of marriage was proof of adultery. She was sentenced to be stoned to death after she gave birth to her child. Hussaini was acquitted by an appeals court on March 25, 2002. The Court ruled that Sharia law wasn't established where she lived until June 2000, a month after the alleged incident."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Hussaini was acquitted by an appeals court on March 25, 2002."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Sharia: How Hussaini escaped death by stoning, By Francis Famoroti, National Mirror (Lagos, Nigeria), September 30, 2013"
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Safiya Hussaini

Charge:

Adultery

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

2001

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Nigeria

County or Region of Crime:

Sokoto

City of Crime:

Gwadabawa

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Hussaini was acquitted by an appeals court on March 25, 2002."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Sharia: How Hussaini escaped death by stoning, By Francis Famoroti, National Mirror (Lagos, Nigeria), September 30, 2013"

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http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/124499/

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