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Article: Nigerian businessman sentenced to imprisonment for selling beer
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 9, 2004
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Nigerian businessman sentenced to imprisonment for selling beer
LAGOS, May 9 (Xinhua) -- A magistrate's court in northern
Nigeria's Muslim-dominated Zamfara state has sentenced a businessman
to six years in prison for smuggling more than 100 cartons of beer
under the provisions of Islamic Sharia law.
The man, identified only as Fred, was also given an option to pay
a fine of 400,000 naira (about 2,857 US dollars), the News Agency of
Nigeria reported Sunday.
The beer was said to have been intercepted by members of the Hisba
Commission (Sharia enforcers) from a supermarket owned by the convict
in Gusau, the Zamfara capital.
Delivering judgment Friday in Gusau, the presiding magistrate, ...