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Islam convert whipped for drug use, court told
AS HE was being held down and whipped repeatedly with a power cord by four men who said they were acting in accordance with Islamic law, a Sydney man was told ''you're going to remember this next time you take alcohol and drugs'', a court has heard.Zakaryah Raad, 21, Tolga Cifci, 21, Wassim Fayad, 44, and Cengiz Coskun, 22, faced Burwood Court yesterday charged with whipping Cristian Martinez, 32, with an electric cable as punishment under sharia. Police allege that in the early hours of July 17 last year, the four men came to Mr Martinez's Silverwater home after he asked one of them for help with his drug and alcohol problem. They allegedly told him he was ''going to be lashed 40 times in accordance with Islamic law''. ''Fayad told me I was going to be punished for what I had done,'' Mr Martinez said. ''Then Fayad started hitting me with the cord and counting 'one, two, three' ... I was begging 'please, no more, I don't want any more'. ''Fayad said 'Allah is taking all the poison out of your body.' '' Posted by: Fred 2012-10-22 |
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