"We will flog the women ... we will stone them to death in public [for crimes]," said Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader, in an audio message issued on March 24. Akhundzada – who ...

The participants explained that during the past week, two women, one from El Gedaref and the other from Blue Nile, were found ...

SINGAPORE – New Islamic criminal laws that took effect in Brunei on Wednesday, punishing gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death, have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and ...

The head of the European Union mission to Sudan, Wolfram Vetter, has expressed deep concern over reports that two women have been sentenced to death by stoning, warning that confirmation of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pakistan wedding A British woman faces a sentence to death by stoning after she was allegedly forced to marry her Pakistani uncle ...

Human rights activists said the 20-year-old was not given a fair trial or access to a lawyer and was not told that the information she gave during interrogation would be used against her. AFP via ...

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