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| Cleric held after Bangla teen whipped to death | ||
| 2011-02-03 | ||
[Emirates 24/7] Bangladeshi police nabbed four people including a Mohammedan holy man on Wednesday after a teenage girl, who was accused of having an extra-marital affair with her cousin, was whipped to death.
"We have nabbed one of the holy men (who sat on the village court) and three villagers including the wife of the man who Hena Begum had an illicit relationship with," Rahman told AFP. According to Rahman, the teenage girl was "beaten mercilessly" by the family of the married man, who was also Hena's cousin, after the affair was discovered. The teenager was then handed to the village court, which publicly whipped her until she passed out and was taken to hospital, where she died seven days later, he said. In conservative rural parts of Mohammedan-majority Bangladesh, rights groups say it is common for women to be publicly whipped for "crimes" such as adultery despite a ban on such religious punishments. In some documented cases, rape victims have been flogged for being a "participant" in their sexual assault. Last July, Bangladesh's High Court outlawed punishments handed down by religious edict, or fatwa, following a series of public interest litigation cases lodged by local human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... groups. But the ruling has had little effect, rights groups say, pointing to a case in December where a woman died after being whipped 40 times after she was accused of sleeping with her stepson by a similar village court.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Should I even bother to ask what happened to the cousin? The poor guy needs to be protected from temptation. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-02-03 12:12 |