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“Horrific Punishment” Saudi Arabia is known to amputate limbs of criminals convicted of certain crimes. Now a court in Saudi Arabia has handed down a sentence of cross amputation on 6 men convicted of highway robbery, a rare form of judicial punishment. This has led to calls by Amnesty International and other human rights groups for the Saudi king [...] Fear Of Increase In Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) The Indonesian Ministry of Health’s regulation issued in November last year on female circumcision continues to attract criticism. The most recent one is that there might be an increase in cases of FGM/C. Dr Junralis Uddin, a medical graduate and lecturer at Yarsi Univeristy in Jakarta, fears that the [...] Did She Do It? The recent beheading of 54-year od Royanti binti Sapubi, an Indonesian maid working in Saudi Arabia, caused an uproar in Indonesia after it transpired that the Indonesian Embassy in Saudi Arabia was not informed of the timing of her execution. Royanti binti Sapubi was charged with murdering her employer. Now Rizana Nafeek, a [...] Did Saudi Government Just Blinked? After staring eyeball to eyeball for so long over the issue of women driving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi women decided to go ahead and drive on Friday, June 17 in a bid to reassert their right to drive which was usurped by a religious edict or fatwa. And the police which came [...] Execution Of Qisas (Retribution In Kind) Postponed Iran’s strict Sharia law permits the sentence of qisas (sometimes spelt as qesas meaning retribution in kind), otherwise known as eye for an eye execution. A spurned lover decided that if he can’t marry his university girlfriend, then nobody else can either. The jealous man then poured acid on her girlfriend, which severely [...] “Death Penalty For Murder Is The Original Sentence” Amnesty International has just released its 2010 report on capital punishment around the world. Once again, it criticized the death sentences imposed under Sharia law. But this time round, a senior judge in the United Arab Emirates has hit back at Amnesty International, accusing it of ignoring repeated explanations [...] Why A Movie On Honor Killing? When Feo Aladag, an Austrian-born actress and journalist, was asked by Amnesty International to craft two public-service announcements for Amnesty’s campaign to end violence against women, she heard from a friend about honor killings. Her further research revealed that around that time there had been something like 5 women subjected to [...] Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Free? Speculation has it that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and her son Sajjad Qaderzadeh had been freed after photographs of them chatting at her home were published in Iranian-state newspapers. The Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, and the wife of the Canadian Prime Minister, Maureen Harper, welcomed their release despite the unconfirmed reports. An activist [...] The Sentence For The Iraqi Cousins Mohammed Saleh Ali and Omar Hussain, two cousins both aged 28, have been been given minimum jail terms of 22 and 21 years, respectively, for the honor killing of their relative Banaz Mahmod in January 2006, for burying her body, and for threatening to kidnap her boyfriend and to kill him. [...] The Saudi Judge’s Action Responding to a request from a paralysed man for tit-for-tat retribution for his assailant, a judge in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk has written to several hospitals in Saudi Arabia whether they could sever the assailant’s spinal cord. The Case The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, aged 22, was paralysed and later lost his foot after [...] |
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