Africa
July 13, 2009
Khartoum,Sudan
A Sudanese women faces 40 lashes after being accused of wearing ‘indecent’ clothes. Several other women, who were also wearing trousers, pleaded guilty and had already received 10 lashes each.

July 25, 2009
Sudan
Feminists avert their gaze while Muslim women suffer. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, an angry Khartoum journalist who works for the UN in Sudan, has started a campaign against shariah law by elevating a local police matter into an international embarrassment.

Middle East
July 10, 2009
Saudi Arabia
A Saudi women’s group blamed the country’s religious police in the “honor” killing of two sisters shot dead by their own brother after they were arrested for mixing with unrelated men.

July 11, 2009
Jordan
Women’s activists in Jordan said they would step up their fight against so-called honour crimes after two women were killed on the same day, and a man jailed for shooting his raped sister had his sentence halved.

July 12, 2009
UAE
A British woman is imprisoned in Dubai for adultery while her ex-husband is now in the USA with another woman.

July 14, 2009
Egypt
Egypt’s mosques fight sexual harassment? A booklet distributed blames, among many other things, provoking clothes worn by some women.

July 17, 2009
Iran
Campaign group Amnesty International said it fears the wave of arrests of human rights activists in Iran is intensifying after a prominent lawyer and feminist, Shadi Sadr, was violently arrested in Tehran on Friday on her way to Friday prayers.

July 18, 2009
Kuwait
Manila maid survives to tell the story of her sadist employer’s torture saga.

July 18, 2009
Egypt
Two incidents of abduction of Coptic girls to force them to convert to Islam took place within one week in Upper Egypt. In both cases the Egyptian security predictably played a key role in the outcome of the cases.

July 19, 2009
Iraq
Iraqi women are buying the latest in fashion but must hide under abayas in public. “It is sad to know that you might get killed or burned with acid when you go out wearing fashionable clothes.”

July 19, 2009
Iran
A member of the militia gives detailed aspects of his service, including his enforced participation in the rape of young Iranian girls prior to their execution.

July 20, 2009
Pakistan
Violence against women goes unnoticed and unchecked in Rawalpindi exposing the fact that performance of government and non-government organisations in this sector is below expectation.

July 21, 2009
Jordan
A 20-year-old Jordanian stabbed his married sister and smashed her head with a rock after accusing her of “immoral behaviour”, a security official said on Friday.

Europe
July 13, 2009
UK
The Muslim woman and older British man whose love survived death threats but was doomed to fail. They have been in hiding ever since they fled their homes due to the “honour-based culture”.

July 20, 2009
Britain
A young Saudi Arabian Princess has been granted asylum by the British government after she pleaded that she would face the death penalty if she returned home with her illegitimate child.

July 21, 2009
Germany
An Afghan man is suspected of stabbing his former wife to death “in the name of the Koran”. Their three-year-old daughter was an eyewitness to the murder.

July 23, 2009
UK
A teenager and a 25-year-old are accused of attempted murder after they allegedly poured sulphuric acid down a young man’s throat in a suspected ‘honour crime’ in Leytonstone. The victim is in critical condition. Update: A 16-year-old boy is being held in custody after the attempted murder of a man who was suspected of having an affair with a married Muslim woman. She has since been warned her life could also be in danger.

Australia
July 16, 2009
Australia
African immigrant girls are increasingly being forced by their families to have barbaric female genital mutilation.

Asia
July 16, 2009
Indonesia
The Mayor of Pekanbaru has issued a directive requiring students to wear traditional Muslim clothing.

July 16, 2009
Indonesia
A Muslim cleric has been rearrested in a continuing controversy over his marriage to a 12 year-old girl.

July 20, 2009
India
Two girls pay with their lives for getting an education in order to bring their families out of poverty.

July 21, 2009
Malaysia
An Islamic court in Malaysia has sentenced a Muslim woman to be flogged with a rattan cane for having a beer in a nightclub.

North America
July 23, 2009
Canada
Police are investigating the death of three sisters found in their car at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in Kingston three weeks ago as a possible “honour” killing. Their parents and a son are charged with first-degree murder.

July 24, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona
The family of an eight-year-old girl who was allegedly gang-sexually assaulted will not take her back into their home, declaring that the girl has dishonoured them.

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