Pakistan "Honor killings": Couple, including teenage bride, mother, sister murdered
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/honor-killing-charsadda/
-- Honour killings: Couple, 3 relatives gunned down
-- "More than three-dozen attackers were dressed in Punjab police uniforms and fully equipped to avenge the so-called
dishonour brought to the family due to the elopement of the girl."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=185739
-- Couple shot dead for eloping - police
-- AFP: "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."
--- "'They killed the bride, the mother and sister of the bridegroom,' said Charsadda district police official Saleem Jan."
--- "'They beat them first and then shot them dead,' he told AFP."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25708922-23109,00.html
-- Newly-wed couple among five shot dead in Charsadda
--- police describe the bride aged 18-19 was "from the deeply conservative Mardan district next to Charsadda"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\06\30\story_30-6-2009_pg7_6
--- "Human rights groups have strongly condemned the practice of honour killings in Pakistan, which claim the lives of
hundreds of women each year."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5687077/Pakistani-family-shot-dead-in-honour-killing-after-wedding.html
Bahrain Offers Women No Protection from Spousal Rape
http://thewip.net/contributors/2009/06/bahrain_offers_women_no_protec.html
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/bahrain-spousal-rape/
-- "Getting a divorce and custody of one's children is very difficult in Bahrain, even in cases where a husband sexually attacks his wife."
-- "Similar to almost all Arab and Islamic countries, Bahrain offers women no protection from their sexually abusive husbands"
-- "Scholar and judge at the Shariah courts, Shaikh Mohsin Al Asfoor says men have the right to demand sexual relations
with their wives as the word 'rape' doesn't exist between couples."
-- Mohsin Al Asfoor: "Shariah courts have declined many cases filed by women against their husbands because they forced
them to have sex, especially females who signed the marriage contracts but were waiting to be wedded, because Islamic regulations are
clear in the right of men to have sex with their wives whenever they wish"
-- "Religious educator Fatima Busandel agrees with Shaikh Al Asfoor saying that women can't say no to their husbands and
that if they tolerate hardship in their sexual relations they will receive God's blessing for trying to protect their homes."
Bangladesh: Islamic supremacist fatwa used for public whipping of woman 200 times
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/bangladesh-fatwa-whipping/
-- Fatwa leads to 303 whips
-- Piara Begum whipped
-- "Piara, mother of five children, fell unconscious soon after the lashings and was taken to the Upazila Health Complex.
The on-duty doctor ANM Bashir Ahmed said her condition was critical and she needed better treatment."
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=94686
-- Bangladeshi woman whipped 200 times in public
-- "A 40-year-old widow was whipped 202 times along with a man, following an edict issued by a local religious
leader for her alleged involvement in 'anti-social activities' in southeastern Bangladesh, prompting police to arrest six persons. "
-- "Piara Begum, a mother of five, was whipped 202 times while 25-year-old Mamun Miah was executed 101 lashes
before hundreds of people in Comilla on Saturday."
-- "The widow had earlier filed a case under the women and children repression prevention act accusing eight persons
including the arrested six and 10 to 12 unidentified people."
-- "Dudmiah, who executed the whippings, said on being produced in the court: 'I executed the fatwa issued by
local religious leaders; I was given the task as a senior villager.'"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/World/Bangladeshi-woman-whipped-in-public/articleshow/4717044.cms
Saudi Arabia: Child Marriage Not Prohibited Under "Sharia Law"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/saudi-child-marriage-sharia/
-- Saudi working on child marriage curbs: rights chief
---- "Aiban said the problem is that under Islamic sharia law, the foundation of the Saudi justice system has
no prohibition on child marriage and new regulations have to be crafted in harmony with sharia principles."
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/world/06/28/09/saudi-working-child-marriage-curbs-rights-chief
Iranian Women Were Emancipated -- on January 7, 1937
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/06/28/iranian-women-were-emancipated%e2%80%94on-january-7-1937/
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