HUNDREDS of people demonstrated outside the Nigerian embassy in Rome on Wednesday to protest against a sentence of death by stoning passed by an Islamic court in Nigeria against a woman accused of adultery. Safiya Husaini (35) was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery last year in Sokoto in Northern Nigeria. She insists that she never committed adultery, but was in fact raped. Her case is currently pending appeal. “We hope that some good will come out of this affair and we think that the execution will not take place,” said Enrico Pianetta, the chairman of the Italian parliamentary commission into human rights. Among the protestors was Alessandra Mussolini, a deputy for the far-right National Alliance and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, the Italian wartime fascist leader. She called for the European Union to intervene in the affair. – AFP