Thursday, November 5, 2015 1:44:52 PM
Stoning [Rajm in Arabic] to death is a barbaric act from a primitive societies in
the world,women have become victims of honor killing in the world.
Recently,
an Afghan woman, identified as Rokhsana, has been stoned to death in
central Afghanistan after being accused of adultery, news agencies
stated. Rokhsana had been allegedly forced to marry against her will and
fled with another man, Afghan officials said. She, 19-year-old, was
allegedly accused of trying to elope with another man but detained,
tried and executed in a Taliban-controlled area, confirmed Ghor’s
governor, Seema Jowenda, to the reporters.
A
30-second online video was appearing to show the punishment has been
released online. “It shows a woman in a hole in the ground surrounded by
turbaned men who hurl stones at her,” BBC said. The man she was accused
of eloping with was flogged.
The
sickening event had been happened about a week ago in “Taliban control”
area just outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor Province.
Officials
in Ghor told the medias that “this is the first incident in the area
[this year] by local religious leaders and armed warlords, but will not
be the last.
“There is no
any legal penalty for Mulla’s sodomy, buggers, multiple marriages for
men, forced marriage against juvenile girls, selling of unmarried girls
to become wives, domestic violence against women, disobeying of the
rules, drug smuggling, artefacts trafficking, robbery and embezzlement
in my country. However, love is a crime for women which is punishable by
stoning; she had not committed to crime as murder or illegal attitudes.
Her only crime was love shack and live freely; killing an innocent girl
is an honor for men in my country“, Sahar Samet an Afghan journalist
stated in her Facebook account.
In
March, another Afghan woman named Farkhunda was savagely beaten and set
ablaze in Kabul after being falsely accused of burning a copy of Quran.
On July 11, 2013, a
young mother of two called Arifa Bibi was stoned to death in a village
in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. She was sentenced to death by stoning by a
Pakistani tribal court, and was executed at the hands of her family.
Her family included uncles, cousins and other relatives threw stones at
Arifa until she died, all because she had a cell phone.
The
Asian Human Rights Commission received news regarding the murder of Ms.
Shamim Akhtar, 50, who worked for the social welfare organization in
Tando Jam, Sindh Province. She was brutally chopped to death by her
husband Mr. Sajid Mahmood and Usman Lodhi, a police constable, on June
4, 2013. Her younger sister Ms. Tasleem Akhtar, 40, also was gunned down
by three armed men at 11:30 a.m on 29 June. Shamim was punished by the
police because she had raised awareness of the murder of a Hindu young
man in the Gulashan Hali police station by brutal tortures. She was
always fighting against the police brutality.
Aisha
Ibrahim Duhulow, 23-year-old girl, was killed on Monday, 27 October
2008, by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the
southern port of Kismayu, in front of around 1,000 spectators, Amnesty
International declared. She was accused of adultery in breach of the
Islamic Laws; Aisha had in fact been raped by three men, and it was this
act that eventuated in her being accused of adultery and arrested, her
relatives said AI.
On 19
October 2015, a woman, who allegedly gave birth out of wedlock, was
convicted to death by stoning in the Maldives’ top court. However, the
verdict was quashed by the Supreme Court, but the island nation had
previously carried flogging sentences to those convicted of extramarital
sex. In 2013, a 15-year-old girl sentenced to 100 lashes after being
guilty of premarital sex; the High Court later overturned the verdict
because she had been wrongly convicted.
An
Iranian woman Sakineh Ashtiani, who was convicted to the capital
punishment of conducting an illicit relationship outside marriage in
2006, freed after having about ten years in Tabriz prison. The alleged
adultery convicted woman was arrested in 2005 on charges of adultery and
conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her husband. She was
sentenced to death by stoning [the sentence was to be implemented in
July 2010] but the Iranian authorities indicated in December 2011 that
they intend to go ahead with her execution by hanging.
The picture belongs to the “Stoning of Soraya’s” movie.
Accordingly,
the true story of Soraya, who was stoned to death in Iran nearly 35
years ago, got made as a movie by Iranian stars. “She is drenched in
blood and crumpled on the ground, mutilated face partially obscured by a
mass of dark hair” Daily Mail described a part of movie [the moment of
execution by stoning].
A
married Saudi Arabian princess has been given asylum because she had an
illegitimate child by a British man, Daily Mail said in 2009. The news
agency added that if she returned home she would face being stoned to
death for adultery, as she claimed.
Women
in general have problems all over the countries control by Sharia laws,
but in areas control by Taliban and ISIS even more conservative trend
overcome. The illegal judicial systems often victimize women in the
Islamic countries. Adultery is a capital offense in the countries under
the Sharia Laws and punishable by stoning, hanging and flogging which is
gaining attention of Human Rights groups and people throughout the
world.
In Nigeria (in
one-third of the country's states), Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Somalia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and Iran, stoning is a
legal penalty [Hudud punishment].
If we
want to compare women rights in the countries govern by Islamic rules
with that of western women, we can see huge disparities as the Muslim
women are still denied their basic fundamental rights. The women are
treated as second-class citizens, but authorities chose to ignore it as
well. The basic civil rights chosen to reject women accessing rights as
entering stadiums, gender barriers in the market, no control on their
bodies and leaving the country without their husband permission.
Background of the adultery punishment*
The
Code of Hammurabi (18th-century bc) in Babylonia provided a punishment
of death by drowning for adultery. In ancient Greece and in Roman law,
an offending female spouse could be killed, but men were not severely
punished. The Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions are all
unequivocal in their condemnation of adultery [Zina].
*Britannica
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