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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.
During the stoning, which lasted approximately 30 minutes, Aswad can be seen in the video attempting to sit up and calling for help as the crowd taunts her and repeatedly throws large chunks of rock or concrete on her head. [1] After her death in the town square, Aswad's body was tied behind a car and dragged through the streets. [6]
Stoning has been reinstated as a form of punishment after the Taliban regained power in 2021. In 2023, the Taliban reaffirmed their commitment to administering the death penalty by stoning, focusing in their message especially on the punishment of women for the crime of adultery. [22] And there have been reports of the Taliban stoning women to ...
On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. [3] The muslim suspects arrested were charged with "Criminal conspiracy and incitement of public disturbance", bailable offences with a maximum 2 year ...
The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. [1] Malikzada, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. [2]
Saint Telemachus (also Almachus [1] or Almachius) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, [3] tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd.
2 Jewish Boys Stoned To Death, The Post and Courier, 10 May 2001. Joyful transformations amidst pain, mfa.gov.il; accessed 19 November 2014. Archived web page of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa that documents the deaths of residents, tekoa.org.il; accessed 19 November 2014.
Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede was a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee [1] [2] who was stoned, lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013. [3] [4]