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[Rick Halperin]

March 29



BANGLADESH:

4 Lakshmipur men get death penalty in 2014 rape case

A Lakshmipur court has sentenced 4 men to death in a 2014 case of rape on a 
housewife in the district.

District and Session Judge AKM Abul Kashem delivered the verdict with the 
accused on the dock on Wednesday.

The 4 accused - Sana Ullah, 37, Abul Kashem Majhi, 32, 'Harun', 32 and Md 
Rahim, 27 - have also been slapped with a fine of Tk 20,000 each.

Prosecutor Abul Bashar said the victim was gang raped on the night of Dec 22, 
2014 at Kamalnagar Upazila. She regained consciousness after spending 5 days in 
hospital.

6 days into the incident, the victim's husband started the case at Kamalnagar 
Police Station accusing 5 people.

Police pressed charges against them on May 31, 2015.

One of the accused has been acquitted in the case, said advocate Bashar.

(source: bdnews24.com)






IRAQ:

Islamic State stones a youth accused of homosexuality in Mosul


The Islamic State group has sentenced a youth to death by stoning in the city 
of Mosul, on charges of homosexuality.

The terrorist group published photos on affiliated websites showing a number of 
IS Diwan al-Hisbah (accountability) members, while reading out death sentence 
according to Sharia, in the presence of a crowd of people, before carrying out 
the execution based on "the limits of Allah and Islam".

The photos revealed that the Islamic State militants started to throw the youth 
with stones, who was blindfolded, after throwing him from a building???s 
rooftop, but the exact time and location of the execution were not identified.

The incident is not the 1st of its kind in Mosul, where the terrorist group 
claims to implement the limits of God and Islam.

Earlier this year, Islamic State militants sentenced a man to death by throwing 
him from a high rooftop in Mosul, after accusing him of being homosexual, while 
used the same method to execute 4 people, including 2 of its own members, on 
charges of homosexuality and sodomy in Dor al-Toub area in central Mosul.

(source: iraqinews.com)