A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.
Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San’a.
Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, [...]
September 13, 2009 | Posted in
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A SUDANESE journalist has been spared a whipping for wearing trousers, but a court instead fined Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein 500 Sudanese pounds ($200), eyewitnesses said.
“I won’t pay. I’d rather go to prison,” Hussein said, though her lawyers said they would try to persuade her to pay up.
The eyewitnesses, speaking as they emerged from the hearing [...]
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RELIGIOUS idiots in Malaysia have freed a Muslim woman who had been sentenced to be caned for dinking beer, although she refused to leave a van taking her to jail when returned to her home.
And her father said the change of mind would ridicule Islam, which bans Muslims from consuming alcohol.
“The warrant cannot be executed,” [...]
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JOHN Travolta is a virtual recluse considering leaving the Church of Scientology six months after the sudden death of his son, according to a report quoting insiders in the church and friends of the actor.
The report claims Travolta is so distraught over the death of Jett, 16, in the Bahamas during a New Year family [...]
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AN Islamic court’s decision to have a Muslim model whipped for drinking beer at a pub has triggered controversy in Malaysia, a multicultural country where such convictions are extremely rare.
Last week, a Sharia or religious court sentenced Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, to six strokes of the cane and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1700) [...]
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MEMBERS of Iran’s feared Basij militia forcibly marry female virgin prisoners the night before scheduled executions, raping their new “wives” and making it religiously acceptable to execute them, a self-professed member of the paramilitary group says.
The anonymous militiaman, exposing a part of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s religious regime in Iran, told The Jerusalem Post [...]
July 21, 2009 | Posted in
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A SAUDI princess who fell pregnant during an affair with a British man has been granted asylum in the UK after she claimed she could face the death penalty if she went home.
A British court granted refugee status to the young woman, who is married to a member of the Saudi royal family, after she [...]
July 20, 2009 | Posted in
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A CAPTURED US soldier has told America “I am scared” in a video released by the Taliban.
Bowe R. Bergdahl, who was snatched last month, is visibly shaken in the 28-minute clip, which has been condemned by Washington.
“I was captured outside of the base camp. I was behind a patrol, lagging behind the patrol and I [...]
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TWO French agents kidnapped in Somalia will be tried soon under Islamic Sharia law for aiding “the enemy of Allah”, an official of the hardline Shebab rebel group holding them said today.
A Somali minister says the two have been taken out of the capital and there’s concern for their safety.
Separately, three foreign aid workers were [...]
July 18, 2009 | Posted in
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RELATIVES of a Pakistani teenager who eloped and married without parental consent shot her dead in a raid on her new home which also killed her husband and in-laws, police said.
Dressed in police uniforms, dozens of relatives attacked the bridegroom’s house in the district of Charsadda, in North West Frontier Province.
“The assailants took the bridegroom [...]
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