Can you help ?

[Belgusa]

This is not a joke, I've been to the website and signed their petition. It's not the first one unfortunately ..... If you could take a minute of your time to sign it you might save her life. Thanks.

We've have just learnt that the Nigerian
> > supreme court have upheld the death sentence
> > for Amina Lawal, who was condemned for the
> > crime of adultery.She is to be buried up to
> > her waist and stoned to death. This barbarity
> > has been postponed for one month so that she
> > could continue to nurse her baby.
> >
> > Amina's case is being handled by the Spanish
> > branch of Amnesty International, who are
> > attempting to assemble enough signatures
> > to make the Nigerian government rescind the
> > sentence. A similar campaign saved another
> > Nigerian woman, Safiya, condemned in
> > analogous circumstances.
> >
> > The petition has thus far (30th April)
> > accumulated over 4,100,000 signatures.
> > It will only take you a few seconds to sign
> > up. Go to web page
> >
> > http://www.amnistiaporsafiya.org/
> >
> > Enter your given name in the space marked
> > 'nombre', surname ('apellidos'), then county,
> > province or (Germany) Land ('provincia'), and
> > then the country from the drop-down box.
> > Then click on 'Seguir' and go to the second
> > page.
> >
> > There you have the option of entering your
> > e-mail address if you wish to receive follow-up information. In any
> > case, be sure to click on 'aceptar' to have your name added to the
> > list.
> >
> > Please sign NOW, then forward this
> > message to everyone in your address book.
> >
> > Anne Shingleton / Robert Ulrich Held
> >
> > Praeterea censeo Islam delendam esse.

[lhall]

I checked this out, because I always check things like this out. According to Snopes.com it's true.

Link to Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/amina.htm)

Leigh

[beejayw1]

I am sorry the appeal did not go through. I signed the petition. (It's a good thing I can understand Spanish, however, for the link brings you to a page in Spanish.)

If you read Snopes, they don't hold out much hope.

This sort of thing makes me appreciate very profoundly the fact that I am very blessed NOT to be living in lands like that, and while I am acutely aware of the problems my country (USA) has, something like this is a bit of a wake-up call.

God help her!

[MrsReber]

This is so horribly sad. No child should be deprived of his or her mother under circumstances like this! I hope that she can be saved.