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Sharia law

April 2024

  • Women being forcefully arrested by the 'morality police'

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

    Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls

March 2024

  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

    Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists

January 2024

  • Protesters from Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain outside parliament in 2011

    What is ‘antisemitic’ Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and what does it want?

    Ban will come into force on Friday if approved by UK parliament, putting group on par with IS and al-Qaida

July 2023

  • Small company of mourners (31581c0c924b15420823bbe05233f97cc119774d)b

    Latest blasphemy killing highlights Nigeria’s problem with religious extremism

    Police are yet to make arrests after a butcher was stoned to death by a mob for perceived insult to Islam

February 2023

  • Sudanese Islamic groups protest against legal amendments<br>epa08552165 Sudanese protesters shout slogans during a demonstration organized by Islamic groups against recent legal amendments, in Khartoum, Sudan, 17 July 2020. According to reports, Islamic groups in Sudan called for protests on 17 July against recent legal amendments they deem to be violating the Sharia (Islamic law). The legal amendments made by the Ministry of Justice included scrapping articles on apostasy and female dress code, allowing non-Muslims to drink alcohols and outlawing female genital mutilation (FGM). EPA/MOHAMMED ABU OBAID

    Sudan court sentences three men to hand amputation for stealing

    The verdict, the first of its kind in almost a decade, has shocked many who fear country is sliding back into state extremism

November 2022

  • Haibatullah Akhundzada

    Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

  • A man's feet with a tattoo of gallows on one

    Rights and freedom
    Under the shadow of death: prisoners who escaped execution in Iran

September 2022

  • A young woman smiling at the camera

    Rights and freedom
    Iran condemns two women to death for ‘corruption’ over LGBTQ+ media links

    Outcry over show trial, which follows Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani talking to BBC about abuse of gay people in Iran’s Kurdish region

July 2022

  • A mannequin used as part of a demonstration against stoning.

    Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery in first case for a decade

    Campaigners say sentence amounts to torture amid fears that country’s new regime is rolling back women’s rights

March 2022

  • School girl study at a home in Kandahar.

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban U-turn over Afghan girls’ education reveals deep leadership divisions

    Rural opposition and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion reveals differences in vision for Afghanistan’s future

January 2022

  • solidarity protest action to support Afghan women.

    Rights and freedom
    Lives of LGBTQ+ Afghans ‘dramatically worse’ under Taliban rule, finds survey

  • The woman during the public flogging in Idi.

    Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, man gets 15 lashes

September 2021

  • A taekwondo training session in Kabul, Afghanistan.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We buried our sportswear’: Afghan women fear fight is over for martial arts

  • A Taliban police officer slaps a boy for loitering. Force is now supposed to be a last resort, according to Kandahar’s new vice and virtue chief.

    ‘We don’t want people to be in a panic,’ says chief of Taliban morality police

  • Sara Wahedi, Peymana Assad, and Sana Safi who are among the many women posting images of themselves in colourful traditional Afghan clothing on social media

    #DoNotTouchMyClothes: Afghan women’s social media protest against Taliban

  • Ophelia among the Flowers, by Odilon Redon

    Suicide still treated as a crime in at least 20 countries, report finds

August 2021

  • Nazma Quraysha Brishty

    Landmark UK court ruling due in ‘bride price’ dispute

    Woman has taken her ex-husband and his parents to court seeking full payment of her mahr

February 2020

  • A bride wears traditional wedding bangles

    Islamic faith marriages not valid in English law, appeal court rules

    Judgment leaves many Muslim women without redress at end of relationship, lawyers say

May 2019

  • George Clooney, who has called for a boycott of businesses owned by Brunei over ‘draconian’ gay-sex death penalty.

    George Clooney vows to keep up pressure on Brunei over gay-sex death penalty

  • Demonstration against the Sultan of Brunei, London, UK. - 06 Apr 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Penelope Barritt/REX/Shutterstock (10189288az) Protest outside the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane. The group are protesting that the Sultan of Brunei is introducing stoning and death by amputation as a punishment for gay sex and adultery. The owners of the hotel are the Brunei Investment Group. Demonstration against the Sultan of Brunei, London, UK. - 06 Apr 2019

    Brunei says it will not enforce gay sex death penalty after backlash

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