ARGIA.eus

Subscribe
Gift subscription to ARGIA
Society Environment Politics Economy Culture Basque language Feminism Education International Opinion
friday 19 july 2024
Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa
Historia > Efemerideen kanala

The Nigerian Xaria court released Safiya Hussain, sentenced to stone death for becoming pregnant without a husband

22
years ago

25 March 2002,

The Nigerian Xaria court released Safiya Hussain, condemned to kill the stone for having become pregnant without a husband. Pressure from the Government of Nigeria and the international led to the suspension of the sentence. Coal is still a legal punishment in many countries.

Source:

Euskaldunon Egunkaria (26 March 2002).

On this day
1516Pedro Mariskala of Navarra gave up at Roncal, along with his 18 captains, during the uprising of the recovery of the kingdom of Navarra
1911New York textile factory fire Triangle Shirtwaist killed 146 workers
1944 76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III

This year in history: < >
From newest From oldest

2002-01-25
200 gypsum showers appeared in the streets of Vitoria when the day dawned
2002-02-01
Victory of the Passions in Hego Euskal Herria
2002-02-02
Ten members of the Basque Country in Euskal Herria started an injunction campaign in the Gernika-Lumo court
2002-02-02
A group of injunctions confessed the documents issued by the army to the Military Government of Bilbao
2002-02-06
The political institutions Segi and Askatasuna declared their continuity after the legalization of Judge Garzón the previous day
2002-02-21
UNESCO publishes endangered Basque
2002-02-23
Six pelotaris of Ipar Euskal Herria who were in the election waived the French team
2002-03-16
Two activists chained in one of the lotteries in the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid
2002-03-25
The Nigerian Xaria court released Safiya Hussain, sentenced to stone death for becoming pregnant without a husband
2002-04-01
A group of foreigners stood in solidarity with the Palestinians acting as a human shield in Arafate
2002-04-11
They reported to the Basque Parliament the torture of Unai Romano
2002-04-14
Amorebieta neighbours held a referendum on the Boroa thermal power plant
2002-06-01
100,000 fake dyptics were distributed with the official anagram of the Basque Government, announcing subsidies for the purchase of housing
2002-06-23
Israel approves the construction of the West Bank separation wall
2002-07-17
The Spanish Legion arrested Moroccan soldiers who were on the island of Leila or Perrexil and "recovered" the territory
2002-08-17
Prisoner Ismael Berasategi fled La Santé prison in Paris, where his brother Joxean took his place
2002-08-26
The Spanish State initiated the process of illegalization of the Batasuna party
2002-08-31
The final of the World Ball Championship was suspended by four members of Works Taldea on the fronton Labrit of Pamplona
2002-09-14
The Ertzaintza attacked thousands of people demonstrating against the Union’s legalisation with water tanks
2002-10-05
Demoe denounced in Baiona the vascoafoba attitude of the French railway company SNFC
2002-10-23
Eight Israeli army reserve officers lawfully requested recognition of the right not to work in occupied Palestinian territories for reasons of conscience
2002-10-24
Three EHE members chained to the table in the Osakidetza test, as they qualified Euskera as merit
2002-11-13
Start of the Prestige oil tanker disaster
2002-12-11
A young taxi driver named Dilawar is murdered under torture by American military in Afghanistan
2002-12-17
There were riots in the trial of two members of Works and Demo in the Baiona court, who denied the declaration in Basque.
2002-12-21
Several activists, dressed in Olentzero and Barbero, climbed to the La Santé prison wall in Paris
2002-12-28
In Galicia, in A Coruña, 10,000 people met to report the Prestige oil tanker disaster

This month's anniversaries:
|
From newest From oldest

5
years ago
2019-03-15
The Fridays for future climate movement celebrated its first international strike
20
years ago
2004-03-13
Baker Angel Berrueta was killed in Pamplona by a Spanish police and his son
20
years ago
2004-03-11
Al Qaeda in Madrid
25
years ago
1999-03-24
NATO launches bombing of Yugoslavia
25
years ago
1999-03-20
The body of Joxelu Geresta Mugika Ttotto, member of ETA, was found under an apple from a Errenteria farmhouse
35
years ago
1989-03-26
A group of climbers implemented the platform against the construction of the Leitzaran highway on the Bi Haizpe rocks of Irurtzun
35
years ago
1989-03-24
Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster in Alaska
35
years ago
1989-03-16
A woman from Portugalete marked on her right leg the acronym GAL
40
years ago
1984-03-23
The GAL shot dead Mondragonese refugee Xabier Pérez de Arenaza Sogorb in Biarritz
40
years ago
1984-03-22
Segmented against five members of the Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commands at Pasai Donibane
40
years ago
1984-03-06
Start a historic strike by miners in the UK against Tatcher
40
years ago
1984-03-01
Didier Lafitte, a member of the American team, was killed by French police in Baiona
45
years ago
1979-03-28
Three Miles Island nuclear accident occurred in the United States
45
years ago
1979-03-03
23 Basque prisoners in Soria prison cut their veins
50
years ago
1974-03-23
Rolls Royce's Scottish workers refused to repair aircraft engine in the Pinochet regime
50
years ago
1974-03-02
Salvador Puig Antich was executed by the Franco regime
60
years ago
1964-03-30
Gernika celebrated the Aberri Eguna, the first held in the South since 1936
65
years ago
1959-03-10
300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it
70
years ago
1954-03-09
Bobby Sands is born in a Catholic family in Belfast
70
years ago
1954-03-01
U.S. nuclear test caught 23 Japanese sailors on Bikini Atoll
75
years ago
1949-03-30
Following the protest against Iceland's entry into NATO in Reykjavik
75
years ago
1949-03-07
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana Argala was born in Arrigorriaga
80
years ago
1944-03-27
US aircraft bombed Anglet and Biarritz
80
years ago
1944-03-25
76 prisoners escaped from Nazi camp Stalag Luft III
80
years ago
1944-03-23
Italian anti-fascist partisans attack Nazis in Rome
85
years ago
1939-03-28
Francoists turned the fronton Euskal Jai of Pamplona into prison
85
years ago
1939-03-16
Prohibition of writing in Basque in Hego Euskal Herria
105
years ago
1919-03-04
Kinmel Park Matxinada begins in the Welsh town of Abergele
120
years ago
1904-03-06
José Antonio Agirre, first president of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, was born
125
years ago
1899-03-06
The pharmaceutical company Bayern recorded aspirin
145
years ago
1879-03-14
Albert Einstein is born, one of the most important scientists in history.
155
years ago
1869-03-24
In New Zealand the lifting of majorities against the British ends
165
years ago
1859-03-19
Josefa Ignacia Albisu Aranburu Joxpinaxi was born in Lazkao
180
years ago
1844-03-10
Born the Madrid musician Pablo Sarasate
190
years ago
1834-03-29
The Zumalacárregui army defeated the liberal troops between Abárzuza and Muro in Navarre
230
years ago
1794-03-13
Two young seafarers were murdered with guillotine for helping those wishing to leave the French Army
230
years ago
1794-03-03
Paris ordered the deportation of robbers
570
years ago
1454-03-09
An Italian explorer was born that would call the American continent: America Vespucio