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Rape Victim, 14, Bled to Death After Public Flogging, Autopsy Finds
By not in system - AOL NewsA second autopsy showed that a 14-year-old rape victim who was publicly flogged for adultery bled to death, Bangladeshi officials said today. Hena Begum was sentenced under Islamic Sharia law to receive 100 lashes. She collapsed after enduring about 80 lashes. Her family took her to a hospital, where she died Jan. 31. Police have opened a murder investigation into the case, which has caused shock and outrage both in Bangladesh and abroad, the BBC said. Related Stories New Autopsy Ordered for Girl, 14, Who Died After Public Flogging Rape Victim, 14, Dies After ...
New Autopsy Ordered for Girl, 14, Who Died After Public Flogging
By not in system - AOL NewsThe body of a 14-year-old rape victim who died after being being publicly flogged has been exhumed so that a new autopsy can be conducted, news reports said today. Elders in her Bangladeshi village ordered that Hena Begum receive 100 lashes on a charge of adultery. She endured 80 lashes before she collapsed. Her family took her to a hospital, where she died. Related Stories Rape Victim, 14, Dies After Public Flogging in Bangladesh Hena, who was sentenced under Islamic Shariah law, was accused of having an affair with a 40-year-old married cousin, although her ...
Rape Victim, 14, Dies After Public Flogging in Bangladesh
By not in system - AOL NewsA 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl allegedly raped by a much older cousin has died after being publicly flogged for adultery, media reports said. Hena Begum was sentenced to receive 100 lashes by a village council made up of elders and Muslim clerics in the district of Shariatpur, about 35 miles from the capital, Dhaka, the BBC said today. She endured about 80 lashes before collapsing Monday, according to The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi newspaper. Her family took her to a hospital, where she died. "What sort of justice is this? My daughter has been beaten to death in the name of justice. If it ...
Jim Morrison Pardoned, Judge Porteous Impeached: The Law at Work
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWho says the Congress stalls on matters involving federal judges? After a trial that lasted only a day, the Senate sure voted quickly to oust impeached U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, Jr., didn't it? There wasn't even the hint of a whiff of a filibuster when members of the august chamber voted 96-0 (on the first of four charges) to convict and remove just the eighth federal judge in American history to be laid low by "high crimes and misdemeanors." The judge's defenses -- that the bribes came mostly when he was a state judge and that there are few legal ethics in Louisiana -- ...
Okla. Judge Grants Permanent Injunction on 'Shariah Law Amendment'
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- Shariah law, OK? An Oklahoma federal judge has put a hold on Ballot Question 755 -- aka the "Shariah law amendment" -- which forbids state courts from implementing international laws, including Islamic Shariah law. The permanent injunction will grant the judge additional time to consider issues surrounding the amendment. Oklahoma federal Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange previously blocked implementation of the ballot measure, which was approved by voters in early November, in light of a lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations aiming to nullify the law. That motion ...
Opinion: What's Wrong With Oklahoma's Shariah Amendment?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- In early November, 70 percent of Oklahoma voters approved changing the state's constitution to instruct state courts to rely on federal and state law when deciding cases and not to use (1) international law or (2) Shariah, the sacred law of Islam. Less than a month later, a federal judge ruled that it is unconstitutional for the Oklahoma voters to so restrict its judges. Sponsors of the law pointed to a New Jersey decision in 2009. A Moroccan man raped his wife, and the judge refused to issue a restraining order because of the man's religious belief that his wife must submit to ...
CAIR's Statement on the Court's Oklahoma Ballot Initiative Ruling
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded a strongly-worded ruling by a federal judge in Oklahoma granting an injunction that bars certification of an anti-Islam state ballot measure (SQ 755) passed in the November 2 election. If it had been certified, SQ 755 would have amended that state's constitution to forbid judges from considering Islamic principles or international law when deciding a case. Today's ruling by Chief Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ordered a preliminary injunction to ...
The Second Monday in November: News From the Legal Beat
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyNow that the great American political machine has paused at last to take a breath, now that the commentators and lobbyists are back home soaking their shibboleths in salt water, perhaps it's time for an old-fashioned survey of the legal beat. It's the second Monday in November, after all, the first Monday after elections, and that means jurists all over the country are trying to clear their decks before the holidays. In the least surprising news of the day, a Connecticut jury came back with a recommendation of the death penalty against a brutal murderer whose deadly home invasion tortured ...
Judge Blocks Oklahoma's Shariah Law Ban, for Now
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- Will Shariah law in Oklahoma resume on Tuesday? A federal judge temporarily blocked the implementation of state ballot measure 755, a controversial new law that officially bans state courts from considering Shariah law when rendering decisions. Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ruled that the voter initiative that singles out Islamic law should not be certified into law until another hearing takes place on Nov. 22. Calling the measure a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit last ...
Muslim Group to Sue Okla. Over Shariah Law Amendment
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- Which is greater, man's law or God's law? The answer to that question depends in part on whom you ask and on which religion is being considered. On Tuesday, for instance, voters in Oklahoma passed State Question 755, aka the "Shariah law amendment," which changed the state constitution so that Oklahoma courts are now forbidden from "considering or using" both international law and Shariah law when making their decisions. Here's some of the text of the measure: International law is also known as the law of nations. It deals with the conduct of international organizations and ...
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