Learning from the Amina case


  • Letters
  • Wednesday, 12 Nov 2003

Nigerian Amina Lawal has been the focus of human rights groups worldwide after she was sentenced to death by stoning in March last year for illicit sex. SHAILA KOSHY looks at the possibility of such a case arising in Malaysia and the lessons to be learnt. 

MALAYSIANS have had more than a cursory interest in the developments in the Amina Lawal case, especially after the PAS-led Terengganu state legislative assembly joined Kelantan to pass its own Hudud and Qisas Enactment in July last year. 

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