Pakistan: Pregnant woman killed for changing sect - from Sunni to Shia Islam
-- "Ayesha Obaid, a pregnant woman who was seriously injured by gunmen in a Mirpurkhas village on Friday, died on Sunday night at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). Ayesha married Hassan Raza on June 25, and the two had been moving from town to town because Ayesha had changed her sect from Sunni to Shia, invoking the ire of her father, Qari Obaidullah."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\08\story_8-9-2009_pg7_9
(Sudan) Woman fined $235 for wearing trousers -- Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein
-- AFP: "'They arrested 48 of us. Some of us were hurt and one is bleeding,' a demonstrator told AFP."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26041899-23109,00.html
(Sudan) 40 held for backing trousers woman
-- UKPA: "Sudanese police have detained 40 women protesting outside a courthouse in support of a female journalist on trial for wearing trousers in public."
-- "Lubna Hussein's trial was set to resume and she could receive 40 lashes and a fine if found guilty of violating Sudan's indecency law which follows a strict interpretation of Islam."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gQUEiCrqB9FCNRmoRLKuRbi8VtLA
Malaysian govt okays model's caning
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/23743/malaysian-govt-okays-models-caning.html
(Saudi Arabia) Save the child bride
-- "I would have thrown away the Declaration of Human Rights in the wastepaper basket, torn off my clothes and gone into the street like Tarzan -- it seems the world has turned into a jungle in which a father is willing to offer his child to a man in his 80s. It is totally disheartening that society is looking at this tragedy as a personal affair and questioning how they can object when the father has given his consent?"
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=13§ion=0&article=126141&d=7&m=9&y=2009
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