21.   The women were convicted of harboring principal suspects in the murder of two Saudi policemen while the others were rounded up for charges related to forgery and robbery.

22.   Two British women were convicted Friday of conspiring to murder a US federal prosecutor investigating a commune that they had helped to found.

23.   Meanwhile, news emerged from nearby Katsina State that a second Islamic court had on Friday convicted another woman to the same punishment for the same offence.

24.   On Friday an Islamic court in Katsina state convicting another woman to death by stoning for adultery.