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Article: France, Belgium pull out of Miss World Contest in Nigeria
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 7, 2002
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France, Belgium pull out of Miss World Contest in Nigeria
LAGOS, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- As the Miss World contest is
approaching, two more countries, France and Belgium, have announced
to pull out of the competition in protest against a Sharia death
sentence by stoning passed on Ms. Amina Lawal convicted of adultery,
local newspaper This Day reported Saturday.
"The Miss France Committee is joining the protests against
Nigeria, which condemns women to death for adultery," Genervieve de
Fontenay, head of the Miss France Committee, was quoted as saying.
"These sentences are barbaric and unacceptable," Fontenay added.
But "if the competition were moved to another country, we would ...