whipping/lashing

Aceh: Three Lashes for Selling Cooked Rice During Ramadan

Publication Date: 
October 2, 2010
Source: 
The Jakarta Globe
Foodstall owner Murni binti Amris wincing as she is whipped by Shariah πolice after Friday prayers in Jantho, Aceh Besar.


Jantho, Aceh. With heads bowed, two young women walked toward a wooden stage outside Al Munawwarah Mosque in Jantho, Aceh Besar. Friday prayers had just ended, and hundreds of residents surrounded the platform, keeping a respectful distance but keen to watch. 

SRI LANKA: An Appeal to the women’s movement against inhuman treatment of a young woman on religious grounds

Publication Date: 
August 11, 2010
Source: 
Asian Human Rights Commission

 

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

SRI LANKA: An Appeal to the women’s movement against inhuman treatment of a young woman on religious grounds

This is a narrative of the husband of the victim, a 17 year old woman with a two month old child, who was subjected to the horrible experience of being beaten about 100 times with the hard centre stem from a coconut frond in the presence of the committee members of the mosque situated in Gokarella in the district of Kurunagalle. This woman had given a birth to a child as a result of an extra marital relationship. She has since married and has been living peacefully.

Shariah in Aceh: Eroding Indonesia’s Secular Freedoms

Publication Date: 
August 18, 2010
Source: 
Jakarta Globe
A woman is caned and shamed in Aceh’s Pidie Jaya district for breaking Shariah bylaws.


A woman is caned and shamed in Aceh’s Pidie Jaya district for breaking Shariah bylaws. It is unclear who was actually behind the implementation of Shariah and resistance to the controversial code is growing.  (Antara Photo/Rahmad)

Aceh: Civil society groups advocate for repeal of Qanun Jinayah (Islamic Criminal Legal Code)


Update on: Calls for Action: Indonesia: New law in Aceh makes adultery punishable by stoning


The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! (SKSW Campaign) and the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network join their allies in Indonesia in continuing to call for the repeal of a law (or 'qanun') passed by the Aceh Legislative Council (DPRD) on Monday 14 September 2009, that expands the range of violent punishments for alleged moral and sexual transgressions, including stoning to death for “adultery” and 100 lashes for homosexuality.

Lubna Hussein

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters on Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test c

150 women and 50 men

Maldives - Women Face Adultery Conviction Flogging

By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent

22 July 200

10 women

The police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the capital, Khartoum, and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers, one of those arrested said Monday.

Unnamed woman

March 2007

A 20 year old Saudi woman was sentenced to 60 lashes of the whip and 6 months imprisonment at a foster house for girls after running away from her home and appearing in public without a male guardian.

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Layali A.

Crime: “Adultery”

In 2006, Layali A. was gang raped by 6 men after being kidnapped from a nightclub. She stated that the accused men had posed as police officers and tricked her into their car. They then took her to a house where they proceeded to gang rape her.

At her hearing, the judge ruled that rape had not been committed, and instead charged Layali A. and the men involved with the crime of ‘adultery’.

Layali A. was sentenced to 150 lashes of the whip and 5 years jail time.
The men were also sentenced to 150 lashes of the whip, but only received 3 months jail time.