Safiya Hussaini

Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu (born 1967) is a Nigerian woman condemned to death for adultery in 2002.She gave birth to a child as a single woman in Sokoto, a Nigerian state under Sharia law. She was sentenced to be stoned, but was acquitted of all charges in March 2002 after a retrial. Quotes I have not been lucky in marriage, but right from my childhood, I have never been stubborn. You see, in the whole of this Sokoto, anybody that cheats me, because of this unfortunate issue that I found myself in, I am asking Allah to avenge me on those who cheated me. Peter Rutherford, Safiya: Pregnant woman sentenced to death for adultery 18 years ago, says: I’ve forgiven my tormentors, The Nation, March 28, 2020. I’ve forgiven everyone. Peter Rutherford, Safiya: Pregnant woman sentenced to death for adultery 18 years ago, says: I’ve forgiven my tormentors, The Nation, March 28, 2020. External links Category:Living people Category:1967 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Women from Nigeria