カテゴリー: Sharia law
Woman and man accused of sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol faced what is likely to be one of the severest punishments since Aceh province adopted sharia lawSharia police have caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province for having…
Hundreds of women forced to confess to ‘moral crimes’ they did not commit have been publicly lashed in AfghanistanThree Afghan women who were brutally flogged in public by the Taliban after being accused of “moral crimes” have bravely spoken out about …
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activistsThe Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international co…
Public executions and amputations some of the punishments for crimes including adultery and theftAfghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amput…
A lack of teachers and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion is a sign of differences in vision for Afghanistan’s futureEarlier this week, girls across Afghanistan arrived for lessons on the day secondary schools were due to op…
Human Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to fleeThe lives of LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have “dramatically worsened” under Taliban rule, according to a new survey, whic…
Man denied any wrongdoing after pair caught together in conservative Aceh provinceAn Indonesian woman has been flogged 100 times in Aceh province for adultery while the male involved, who denied the accusations, received just 15 lashes.Ivan Najjar Alav…
Female taekwondo and karate trainers are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban takeover and fear they may never compete againOn the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan…
Exclusive: In his first interview with western media, Kandahar’s enforcer promises things will be different from the brutal 1990sMawlawi Mohammad Shebani is officially in charge of policing morals throughout Kandahar, the Taliban heartland of southern …
Women around the world are sharing pictures of themselves in traditional colourful clothes in a campaign against the new strict dress code for female studentsAfter street demonstrations across major cities in Afghanistan, women have now taken to social…