An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has acquitted a woman (35) accused of adultery, lifting her sentence of death by stoning.
The chief judge of the Upper Sharia Court of Sokoto, dismissed all charges against Ms Safiya Husaini, whose conviction last year provoked international outrage and concern in Nigeria.
The court took two hours to read the judgment, delivered a week after the last hearing in the case.
Ms Husaini was found guilty of adultery by a lower Islamic court last October for giving birth out of wedlock.
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