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Several adultery executions by stoning committed by IS were reported in the autumn of 2014. [72] [73] [74] The Islamic State's magazine, Dabiq, documented the stoning of a woman in Raqqa as a punishment for adultery. [citation needed] In October 2014, IS released a video appearing to show a Syrian man stone his daughter to death for alleged ...
The punishment of stoning/Rajm or capital punishment for adultery is unique in Islamic law in that it conflicts with the Qur'anic prescription for premarital and extramarital sex [9] [1] found in Surah An-Nur, 2: "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication — flog each of them with a hundred stripes."
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery.She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes.
Adultery can be punished by up to one hundred lashes, though this is not binding in nature, and the final decision will always be in the hands of a judge appointed by the state or community. [223] [224] However, no mention of stoning or capital punishment for adultery is found in the Quran and only mentions lashing as punishment for adultery ...
In 2017 a court sentenced a woman to death for adultery, but there has been no report of her execution. Crimes punishable by the death penalty include adultery, sodomy, murder, rape, armed robbery ...
The Stoning of Soraya M. is an adaption of the book. Soraya Manutchehri ( Persian : ثریا منوچهری , romanized : Soraya Manuchehri ; the "t" in the transcription by Sahebjam followed French spelling rules; c. 1951 – 15 August 1986) was a 35-year-old woman who was stoned to death in the small village of Kuhpayeh , Iran, after being ...
The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.
The stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was a public execution carried out by the Al-Shabaab militant group on 27 October 2008 in the southern port town of Kismayo, Somalia. Duhulow's father and aunt stated that she was a 13-year-old girl and that she had been arrested and stoned to death after trying to report that she had been raped.