Amnesty International is welcoming the decision in Northern Nigeria to quash the death sentence imposed on a woman on an adultery charge.

An Islamic appeals court in Nigeria has overturned a death sentence handed down to a 32-year-old woman who was convicted of adultery in March last year.

An Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria was today deciding the fate of a single mother facing death by stoning for adultery in a case that has drawn international outrage.

Baby in her arms, a single mother condemned by an Islamic court to death by stoning appeared in a Nigerian court today today to appeal against the sentence that has drawn an international outcry.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has expressed outrage at the death sentence handed down to a Nigerian woman who was convicted of adultery.