giovedì 3 febbraio 2011

Bangladeshi girl whipped to death

"Police in Bangladesh have arrested four Islamic clerics after a teenage girl accused of having a relationship with a married man was whipped to death.

The clerics were accused of ordering Mosammet Hena, 14, to receive 100 lashes in a fatwa, or religious edict, at a village in south-western Shariatpur district, the area's police chief, AKM Shahidur Rahman, said. The area is 35 miles from the capital, Dhaka.
Fatwas are illegal in Bangladesh, but Islamic clerics sometimes preside [...]" 

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