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TEHRAN, Iran — Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction in a case that sparked an international ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A young writer and human rights activists faces six years in prison after Iranian authorities charged her for penning an unpublished short story about stoning. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was found guilty ...

The case is a high-profile test of Nigeria’s use of strict Islamic law, known as Sharia, since its reintroduction to 12 predominantly Muslim northern states after the end of military rule in 1999. A ...

Human-rights activists have won a partial victory in Iran. In the face of a worldwide outcry, Tehran confirmed late last week that it had suspended a sentence of death by stoning against a woman ...

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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