Hi Billy, So, do you approve or disapprove? :-/ > YEMEN: Stoning is the prescribed punishment for adultery and for > homosexuality by married men >
-- Ernie P. On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > FACTBOX: Stoning – where does it happen? > Emma Batha (Reuters, September 29, 2013) > > London (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a > group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts > of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment for adultery. Most victims are > women. Stoning, which is not mentioned in the Koran, violates international > law. Below is a list of countries where stoning is legal and/or practised. > > AFGHANISTAN: Stoning became an official punishment for certain crimes such as > adultery during the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule. It was abolished after their > overthrow, but is still practised in areas controlled by the Taliban, > warlords and tribal leaders. Last year, a 21-year-old woman, Najiba, was > stoned in front of more than 100 cheering men after being accused of “moral > crimes” by local warlords in Parwan province. In 2011, a mother and daughter > were stoned in Ghazni city. In 2010, the Taliban stoned a couple in Kunduz. > Some stonings have been filmed. Campaigners say the Taliban, insurgents and > warlords are misusing religion to create terror and spread their influence. > > INDONESIA: In 2009, the conservative province of Aceh passed a law > stipulating that adulterers be stoned to death. But the governor refused to > sign it, so it has no legal force. No stonings have been carried out. It has > been reported that the Aceh government will remove the stoning provision but > activists remain worried given the level of public support for stoning. > > IRAN: Stoning is a legal punishment in Iran, which has the world’s highest > rate of execution by stoning. Men are customarily buried up to their waists > and women up to their chests. Since proving adultery is very difficult, the > law allows a judge to act on gut feeling rather than testimonies or > confessions. In 2010, the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman > sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery, caused international > outcry. The authorities have suspended her sentence but she remains in > prison. Officials withdrew stoning from a new draft penal code last year, but > have since reinserted it. > > IRAQ: Stoning is not legally sanctioned but extrajudicial stonings appear to > be increasing. In 2008, a 16-year-old girl, Kurdistan Aziz, was stoned to > death in Iraqi Kurdistan. After eloping to marry a man her family disapproved > of, she asked the police for help. They referred her to the department in > charge of ending domestic violence, which, instead of protecting her, > returned her to her family. Her relatives stoned her to death saying her > actions had brought shame on them. The authorities refused to intervene in > what they called a “tribal issue”. In April 2007, Du’a Khalil Aswad, a > teenager from the Yazidi religious minority, was stoned to death for her > alleged involvement with a Sunni Muslim boy. The stoning was filmed and the > video reportedly shows that security forces were present but failed to > intervene. > > MALAYSIA: Two states, Kelantan and Terengganu, approved bills in 1993 and > 2002 to bring Islamic criminal laws – including stoning as a punishment for > adultery – into their legal systems. But opposition by the federal government > means these laws cannot be applied. No one has been sentenced to stoning. > > MALI: An al Qaeda-linked Islamic militant group in northern Mali, Ansar Dine, > said last year it had stoned a married couple accused of engaging in > extramarital affairs. The couple were executed in Aguelhok, near the border > with Algeria, a spokesman for the group said. Islamist extremists applied > their interpretation of sharia law after taking control of two-thirds of > Mali's desert north. > > MAURITANIA: Stoning is legal for “acts against nature” between men and for > adultery by a married woman or man. Sharia law became the basis for > Mauritania’s penal code in 1983, but there have been no reports of any > stonings. > > NIGERIA: Stoning is a punishment for adultery in Nigeria’s 12 northern > states, which adopted sharia penal codes between 1999 and 2001. At least six > people have been sentenced to stoning. But every case has been won on appeal. > In a case that received international attention in 2002, divorcee Amina Lawal > was convicted of adultery on the basis of a pregnancy, even though the > alleged father swore he did not have a relationship with her and was > acquitted. Lawal won her appeal in 2003 and there have been no adultery > prosecutions since, but the stoning law remains in force. > > PAKISTAN: Stonings have been legal since harsh interpretations of Islamic law > were incorporated into criminal law in 1979. Although no stoning has ever > been carried out within the legal system, extrajudicial stonings happen in > some tribal areas. In July, a mother of two was stoned by her relatives on > the orders of a tribal court for having a mobile phone. Earlier this year, a > soldier was stoned on the orders of a tribal court in the northwest Kurram > region for an alleged affair with a local girl. In 2008, militants stoned a > couple in the northwest Khwezai-Baezai region after a tribal court found them > guilty of adultery. A group connected to the Taliban had captured the couple. > > QATAR: Stoning is legal, although it is believed no stonings have occurred. > > SAUDI ARABIA: Adultery, which is considered an offence against God, is > illegal and punishable by stoning. There are no accounts of stonings in the > past decade, but there have been reports of courts sentencing people to be > stoned. In 2010, a Filipino worker was sentenced to stoning over an > extramarital affair. The ambassador persuaded the judge to reconsider his > decision. In 2009 two Sri Lankans were sentenced to stoning for adultery. The > sentences were reduced to 700 lashes and six years in prison. > > SOMALIA: Stonings happen more regularly in Somalia than many other > Muslim-majority countries, primarily in areas under the control of Islamist > groups like al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. In the most notorious case, a > 13-year-old girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was partially buried and stoned to > death by 50 men in front of 1000 people at a stadium in Kismayu in 2008. > Amnesty International reported that she had been raped by three men but was > accused of adultery when she tried to report the rape to al Shabaab militants > in control of the city. None of the men was arrested. Homosexual > relationships are also punishable by stoning. > > SUDAN: Stoning is a legal form of punishment for adultery under the 1991 > penal code. Two young women, Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool and Intisar Sharif > Abdallah, were sentenced to stoning for alleged adultery in separate cases > last year. Both convictions were based on confessions and both women lacked > legal representation, according to reports. Human Rights Watch said Abdallah > appeared to be under 18 and only confessed after she was beaten by a family > member. Both women had given birth not long before and were held in jail with > their babies and with their legs shackled. They have since been freed on > appeal. HRW says judges have sentenced several women to stoning in recent > years, but courts have overturned the sentences on appeal. Most stoning > sentences have been imposed on women. > > UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Adultery is punishable by stoning under the penal code > enacted in 1987. Courts rarely issue stoning sentences but it has happened > occasionally. In 2007, the courts upheld a stoning sentence of a man > convicted of having sex with his four stepdaughters. It’s not known whether > the sentence was carried out. The girls were sentenced to 80 lashes each even > though they had been forced into the relationships. In 2005, a Bangladeshi > man was sentenced to stoning for adultery. An Indonesian woman was similarly > sentenced in 2000 even though she told the court she had been raped. Both > sentences were later reduced to one year and deportation. > > YEMEN: Stoning is the prescribed punishment for adultery and for > homosexuality by married men under the penal code enacted in 1994. Although > no known stonings have taken place, it is still a legitimate punishment. > Reports suggest impoverished women are the most likely to be sentenced to > stoning. > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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