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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 ...
Highest support for stoning is found in Muslims of the Middle East-North Africa region and South-Asian countries while generally less support is found in Muslims living in the Mediterranean and Central Asian countries. Support is consistently higher in Muslims who want Sharia to be the law of the land than in Muslims who do not want Sharia. [81]
Stoning: The victim is battered by stones thrown by a group of people, with the injuries leading to death. It is legal in Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.
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.
The three-day stoning ritual in Mina, a desert site outside Mecca, is among the final rites of the Hajj, and symbolizes the casting away of evil and sin. It started a day after pilgrims ...
Rukhshana Media (Dari: رسانه رخشانه) is an Afghan women's media organisation [1] created in November 2020 in memory of Rukhshana, [2] a young woman stoned to death in 2015 in Ghor Province for having fled with a lover after a forced marriage. [3]
A Maryland woman will spend up to 50 years in prison after the badly decaying bodies of her niece and nephew were found in her trunk, where she had kept them for months. On August 13, 2024, Nicole ...
Wassu stone circles. The Senegambian stone circles (French: Cercles mégalithiques de Sénégambie), or the Wassu stone circles, [1] are groups of megalithic stone circles located in the Gambia north of Janjanbureh and in central Senegal.