Saudi Arabia: Philippine Woman Imprisoned for Being Rape Victim "Under Shariah Law"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/saudi-arabia-philippine-woman-imprisoned-for-being-rape-victim-under-shariah-law/
-- GMA News: "Family of raped, jailed Pinay in KSA seeks help"
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/172462/family-of-raped-jailed-pinay-in-ksa-seeks-help
--- See also:
--- February 11, 2009: Saudi Rape Victim Sentenced to 100 lashes by Islamic supremacists
---- gang rape victim tortured for committing "adultery"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/02/saudi-100-lashes/
Italy: Moroccan man accused of 'honor killing'
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/italy-moroccan-man-accused-of-honor-killing/
-- AKI reports:
--
"A Moroccan man is facing murder charges after allegedly stabbing his
18-year-old daughter to death for falling in love with an older man in
a small northern Italian town. Sanaa Dafani was stabbed in the throat
while she was sitting in a car with her 31-year-old boyfriend in
Montereale Valcellina, northwest of Trieste, late Tuesday."
-- "Her
father, El Ketawi Dafani was later detained by police and interrogated
overnight. Some Italian news reports said he had made some admissions
about being present at the scene of the alleged crime but had also
contradicted himself in relation to the evidence."
-- "There is also
widespread speculation that El Ketawi Dafani, believed to be a Muslim,
objected to religious differences between his daughter and her
boyfriend and their plans to live together."
-- "According to media
reports, the victim's father blocked the car and threatened his
daughter. Her boyfriend Massimo De Biasio tried to protect her from the
attack and was injured in an alleged assault from the father."
--
"The case has already drawn comparisons with the controversial murder
of a young Pakistani girl, Hina Saleem, who was killed by male
relatives in August 2006.
-- "Hina's father Mohammed, confessed to
slitting 20-year-old Hina's throat for 'dishonouring the family'
because she lived with an Italian man, wore jeans and worked in a
pizzeria."
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3777791349
Malaysia sentences another to caning under Shariah law for drinking alcohol
-- Nazarudin Kamaruddin
-- Amnesty International reports on "Shariah law"
-- "Amnesty International has also called for the government to repeal all laws providing for caning"
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/malaysia-sentence-another-caning-shariah-law-drinking-alcohol-20090915
-- In Malay-Muslim heartland, caning wins support
---
Reuters: "The end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan this weekend
could see Islamic authorities in Malaysia carry out the country's first
caning sentence on a woman, a punishment that is fast gaining support."
---
"Although the penalty has been condemned by rights groups and is being
reviewed by an Islamic appeal court, it is endorsed by conservative
Muslims whose influence is on the rise in this multi-racial, Southeast
Asian country of 27 million people"
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE58G15520090917
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) claims press release
criticizing Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill was a
"mishap"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\17\story_17-9-2009_pg7_14
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