Stoning the devil During the "stoning of the devil," pilgrims lob rocks at three pillars, known as the "Jamarat," symbolizing the rejection of the devil's temptation.
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He wrote another on stoning, the Shariah punishment for adultery.
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Northern Nigeria calls for death by stoning in cheating cases.
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Public stoning, rape, mutilation and forced prostitution are all common consequences.
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Hudud law allows for penalties such as amputation of limbs and stoning.
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Think of Brunei, which recently instituted death by stoning for gay sex.
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Other readers have wished the group members death by stoning or by hanging.
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Movement through the eyes of a poet and journalist turned anti-stoning and
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In the U.A.E., flogging, stoning, amputation and crucifixion are legal forms of punishment.
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In October, 2006, Amini and Sadr started a campaign called Stop Stoning Forever.
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Authorities charged Kyagulanyi with treason last month over the suspected stoning of Museveni's convoy.
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Technically, the word is a synonym for stoning, but it sounds much less violent.
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Anal sex and sex outside marriage (including gay sex) can earn death by stoning.
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"They arrived in many cars and started stoning our house and shouting," Manenji said.
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Only two women remained behind bars: Amini's partners in the Stop Stoning Forever campaign.
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On Wednesday, Brunei became the seventh when its government enacted a controversial stoning law.
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In the past, punishments for breaking zina laws included whipping and even death by stoning.
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Sex between men, anal sex and insulting the Prophet are also all punishable by stoning.
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Three of the detained lawmakers took part in the stoning, according to the charge sheet.
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However, under the new measures, those found guilty could see penalties including whipping and stoning.
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Since 2011, Orbán has regularly travelled to Strasbourg to receive a kind of public stoning.
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Amini reminded him that the head of the judiciary had ordered an end to stoning.
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The minister of justice gave a press conference and called the stoning story a lie.
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First, Shariah lays out corporal punishments, such as chopping off hands, stoning, flogging and beheading.
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According to Article 225 of the Islamic Penal Code, you are sentenced to death by stoning.
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Brunei has enacted horrific new laws in which gay sex is punishable by stoning to death.
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The law granted judges discretion over stoning and the hundred-lashes punishment for crimes against chastity.
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"In the Quran, you'll find verses justifying lapidation" — death by stoning — "and jihad," Imam Doudi said.
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Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said death by stoning "has no place in the 21st century".
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The stoning punishment is also set to apply to rape, sodomy and adultery, according to Sky News.
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He would be charged "at an appropriate time" with offences from the stoning of the presidential convoy.
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Many were then sentenced in ISIS-run courts, where they faced punishments including death, stoning or amputation.
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UMNO had long opposed such measures, which some see as a step towards hand-chopping and stoning.
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The law calls for death by stoning not only for sex between men but also for adultery.
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Stoning was not technically a women's issue: the sentence was levied at least as often on men.
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The document was a letter from the presiding judge to Shahroudi, explicitly defying the moratorium on stoning.
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While Amini convalesced, her colleagues dissolved the Stop Stoning Forever campaign into an umbrella organization based abroad.
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The penalty for being found guilty of adultery or extramarital sex is flogging or death by stoning.
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Along with stoning for sodomy, the laws impose the death penalty on rapists and punish thieves with amputation.
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The seemingly harmless task of de-stoning an avocado can lead to some gnarly slippage and severed limbs.
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Iranian judges scarcely ever handed down stoning verdicts, but the situation seemed to require an especially horrific punishment.
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But the Stop Stoning Forever campaign continued, even though its members understood that they were being closely monitored.
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Mullah Saadyar has also been accused of having a role in the stoning of a local woman, Rukhshana.
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Tomorrow, a new law goes into effect that will punish adultery and homosexual sex with death by stoning.
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Shari'a law, which is practiced in 12 northern states in the country imposes a penalty of death by stoning.
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We also didn't worry about second-hand smoke–the worst thing that could happen was accidentally stoning our dog.
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But in the finale, Offred drops the rock she's been given and stops the other handmaids from stoning Janine.
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Amini's source in Mashhad insisted that a judge there had imposed a stoning sentence in violation of Shahroudi's order.
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There was trouble within the Stop Stoning Forever campaign—divisions and disagreements among colleagues—even as its caseload grew.
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The Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law, including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay.
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" Former US Vice President Joe Biden said stoning "people to death for homosexuality or adultery is appalling and immoral.
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The second time was during Hajj, at the Stoning of the Devil area in Mina, just east of Mecca.
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Wine, however, gained global prominence in 2018 following his arrest alongside several opposition politicians accused of stoning the President's convoy.
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Homosexuality has always been illegal in Brunei but the stricter Islamic laws now make it punishable by stoning to death.
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But under the new measures, those found guilty of gay sex and adultery may be subject to stoning or whipping.
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In 2002, Amini knew, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iran's chief justice at the time, had ordered a moratorium on stoning.
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Ultimately, Aceh's Department of Shariah revised the criminal code and sent Parliament a new version without the provision on stoning.
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Besides stoning individuals found guilty of homosexuality, which is already illegal in the country, the laws also call for amputating thieves.
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The marriage age for girls was reduced to nine, and, in 1981, parliament introduced flogging, stoning, and payment of blood money.
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He has also said that migrants would impose sharia law, stoning women to death for adultery and chopping thieves' hands off.
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The ritual stoning is repeated daily for three days before pilgrims return to Mecca to circle the Kaaba one last time.
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Despite widespread condemnation, Brunei is implementing harsh new criminal laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.
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Rights organizations have accused Islamic State militants of killing dozens of gay men by throwing them from buildings or stoning them.
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These "gender laws" were sometimes unclear, and the punishments seemed random—ranging from fines to stoning—and designed to strike terror.
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He had been charged with illegal possession of firearms after he was accused in the stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's motorcade.
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The Islamic State militants, she added, enforced religious rules and staged public executions, by beheading or stoning, for crimes like adultery.
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The experts urged Saudi authorities to "repeal all provisions contained in legislation which authorize the stoning, amputation and flogging of children".
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But it also has harsh punishments, including stoning and even burning to death, for crimes such as adultery, blasphemy and idolatry.
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The inmate population is reduced through deliberate starvation, forced labor under brutal conditions, executions (including by stoning), torture, rape, and infanticide.
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The concert resumed with the stoning of heavy metal band Excalibur, whose only sin was that they didn't play ultra metal.
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Castonzo was nearly flawless, while Nelson and Kelly shined against stunts, twists and blitzes, often stoning a looping Clowney or Whitney Mercilus.
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But Pekka Rinne (21-14-29) made the biggest of his 210 saves, stoning Loui Eriksson at the goalmouth with his pads.
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A study last year found more than 70% of Malaysia's ethnic-Malay, Muslim, majority support hudud laws such as stoning for adultery.
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Stoning suspected adulterers in one such punishment; the accused is buried neck-deep and then killed by rocks thrown by a crowd.
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In the West, people often think of Shariah as a rigid Muslim legal system from the Middle Ages, with stoning and amputations.
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These include whipping or death by stoning for extramarital sex and anal sex, among other things, and amputations of limbs for theft.
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In much of popular culture, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a temptress who found piety after Jesus delivered her from a stoning.
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Organizations like the F.P.I. often make their case for establishing Shariah — which calls for stoning adulterers — on the back of other issues.
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First, I got stuck in the 2006 stampede during the Stoning of the Devil in Mina and that itself was very traumatic.
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They will continue the stoning ritual over the weekend and return to Mecca to pray at the Grand Mosque before completing the pilgrimage.
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And just last month, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the ruler of Brunei, said he'd introduce death by stoning for those convicted of gay sex.
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The report also criticises Iran for inflicting corporal punishment on alleged miscreants, with amputations of limbs, floggings (often in public), stoning and blinding.
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Despite widespread international criticism, Brunei on Wednesday introduced new Islamic laws that make adultery, abortion and gay sex punishable by death by stoning.
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Amini had a breakthrough when one of the campaign's members who lived abroad published an interview with her about the Mashhad stoning case.
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In November, in an adultery case, a married woman was sentenced to death by stoning; her unmarried male partner received a hundred lashes.
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Richard Branson "New laws in Brunei will punish adultery and gay sex with death by stoning," the Virgin Group founder wrote on Twitter.
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"Stoning to death is a particularly unique, cruel, brutal punishment designed to prolong the agony of the person being killed," he told Reuters.
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Each work depicts the Acts of the Apostles, like "The Stoning of St. Stephen and St. Paul Preaching in Athens," according to Reuters.
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A week before the stoning attack, a Palestinian gunman fatally shot two Israeli workers in an Israeli-run factory in the West Bank.
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Caroline: I was really encouraged by the way the stoning ended up unfolding (which is not a sentence I ever saw myself writing).
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In previous years, jostling to perform the stoning before returning to Mecca accounted for many of the stampedes and crushes that have afflicted haj.
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Saab blamed Guevara for the shooting, stoning and stabbing of security officials, paying adolescents to protest, and exhorting violence during the protests this year.
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One example is the work of Jamaican-born artist Helen Elliott, who eschews the natural shiny, slick glossiness in favor of a stoning process.
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Residents of Sablale town in Lower Shabelle region gathered to witness the stoning of the woman, Shukri Abdullahi, 30, who allegedly had 11 husbands.
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In Saudi Arabia, the penalty is stoning to death for married men or for non-Muslims who engage in same-sex conduct with Muslims.
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During one part of Hajj, pilgrims take part in a rite in which they throw pebbles at three pillars to symbolize stoning the devil.
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A law took effect in the small Southeast Asian nation of Brunei in April that would punish homosexuality and adultery with death by stoning.
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Such values-based arguments have been made through history for stoning adulterers and burning witches — and, in Japan in the 1600s, boiling Christians alive.
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The U.S. sets the stage for a feisty 2020 presidential campaign, Brunei puts its stoning law into effect and Malaysia begins trying Najib Razak.
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Adultery is a crime in Saudi Arabia that carries severe penalties, with sex outside of marriage punishable by imprisonment, stoning or the death penalty.
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" He said on Twitter: "I call on the Sultanate of Brunei to withdraw the death penalty by stoning f homosexual acts between consenting adults.
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The public outcry comes in response to the implementation of new Islamic laws that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.
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In April, the ruler of the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Brunei announced he would introduce death by stoning for those convicted of gay sex.
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A police officer in South Australia is under investigation by his force after a video appeared to show him stoning and seriously injuring a wombat.
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A police officer in South Australia is being investigated by his force after video footage that appears to show him stoning a wombat went viral.
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Brunei: Beginning April 3, the country will implement Islamic laws that would punish adultery and gay sex with death by stoning, despite immense international pushback.
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Death penalty reversal: Brunei has said it would not carry out executions by stoning for people convicted of adultery and gay sex, after widespread protest.
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If there had been a stoning, it was done in secret, and whoever had ordered it would go to great lengths to keep it hidden.
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Amini and her partners in the campaign hoped to hold a system of discriminatory family law to the light by exposing the persistence of stoning.
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She shows quiet kindness toward Janine — she even cries as she handles the proceedings of her stoning — but she remains steadfastly in favor of Gilead.
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Groups such as Islamic State have become notorious for gruesomely murdering people suspected of being gay by throwing them off buildings and stoning them to death.
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The report also said Islamic State (IS) militants had executed women and girls by stoning for alleged adultery, forced girls into marriage, and persecuted homosexual men.
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Executions by crucifixion and stoning should be stricken from its statute books, and authorities should halt prosecutions and intimidation of journalists, critics and activists, it said.
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The 2015 crush killed nearly 800 people, according to Riyadh, when two large groups of pilgrims met at crossroads on the way to the stoning site.
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The punishment they had dangled over him, execution by stoning, the punishment they had used to force him to denounce me before the cameras, was null.
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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, he may have lived out his life and died naturally — or he might have died a martyr by burning, stoning, or beheading.
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On April 3, Brunei, a country in Southeast Asia, will enact a new death-penalty law that allows stoning people who engage in homosexual activities to death.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The European Parliament on Thursday strongly condemned Brunei for introducing "retrograde" Islamic laws that punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning.
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The Islamic penal code punishes crimes such as sodomy with flogging and death by stoning, and its introduction was widely condemned by women's activists around the world.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brunei has sparked global criticism for saying it will implement Sharia law this week, allowing homosexuality to be punishable by stoning to death.
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Vaguely written, the laws institute sentences of lashings and even stoning to death -- and have been used to imprison women at the mere accusation of illicit behavior.
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Finally, the use of horrific forms of execution including beheading and "crucifixion," and stoning, sees the Kingdom violate the most basic prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.
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Homosexuality is already illegal in Brunei, with a punishment of up to 10 years in prison, but the new laws allow for penalties including whipping and stoning.
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Choosing the emotional beat over the action beat at this point in the show's run is the smart move, and it gives the non-stoning additional heft.
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Brunei this year also put into effect a criminal code that prescribes execution by stoning for gay sex (although the country's sultan says it will not be implemented).
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Brunei is a tiny, oil-rich country that follows Sharia Law and, according to Reuters, recently enacted laws allowing the stoning and whipping of gay people and adulterers.
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The U.S. added its voice to the global condemnation of Brunei's sharia law making homosexual intercourse and adultery punishable by stoning to death, which came into force Wednesday.
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Among other brutal punishments, it calls for the amputation of a hand or foot as punishment for thieves, and death by stoning for adultery or sex outside marriage.
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Sex outside of marriage is officially punishable by flogging, jail time, or in cases of adultery, death by stoning, although corporal punishments are not, in practice, carried out.
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The letter said that stoning to death and amputations could only happen if "men of high moral standing and piety" had witnessed the alleged crime beyond all doubt.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Brunei is violating human rights by implementing Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Extramarital sex, or adultery, was an offense under Article 201 — but to be punished with a prison sentence of "three months to two years," not stoning to death.
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Lance Bass has some choice words -- and a splash of sarcasm -- for the Sultan of Brunei on the day his country will start stoning gay people to death.
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Likes and retweets bear a structural similarity to execution by stoning, particularly if the crowd is large: it's hard to see the victim, and nobody has good aim.
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The Quran, in fact, is free of some of the harsh corporal punishments commonly associated with Islamic law — such as stoning of adulterers — but it does include others.
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JERUSALEM — Several Jewish teenagers have been arrested in connection with the fatal stoning of a Palestinian woman in the West Bank, Israel's internal security agency said on Sunday.
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Local media reported an arson attack on a church and the stoning of a farmers' house in Ercilla, as well as road barricades set up following the fatal shooting.
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They've got a 15 billion dollar stake in SoftBank and they're also … stoning is legal, people are disappeared, I mean, so … but, what's interesting- Brian O'Malley: People are disappeared.
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The group has also made clear its visceral and vicious homophobia by throwing people they suspect of being gay off buildings in their so-called caliphate and stoning them.
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On Thursday members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote on a resolution that "strongly condemns" the laws, which allow for sodomy to be punished by stoning to death.
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The second Ofglen (Tattiawna Jones), a Black woman, was beaten and had her tongue ripped out for vocally opposing the stoning of one of her white peers (Madeline Brewer).
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Shahroudi was head of Iran's hardline judiciary for a decade until 2009, but he implemented some reforms including banning death penalty by stoning, arguing it was tarnishing Iran's image.
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Rights groups have accused Islamic State militants of killing dozens of gay men by throwing them from buildings or stoning them and then posting videos of the murders online.
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Asked about the stoning of adulterers, some 66% completely deplored the practice and 13% condemned it "to some extent"; up to 5% felt at least some sympathy for stoners.
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LONDON, April 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The European Parliament on Thursday strongly condemned Brunei for introducing "retrograde" Islamic laws that punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning.
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Brunei sparked a global outcry last month with plans to bring in laws that punished sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning, although it later backed down.
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They will return to the bridge over the next two days for more stoning before returning to Mecca to pray at the Grand Mosque at the end of haj.
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In previous years, jostling to perform the stoning before returning to pray at the Grand Mosque accounted for many of the frequent stampedes and crushes that had afflicted haj.
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Israel's domestic security agency, the Shin Bet, has found itself on the defensive, accused by right-wing organizations of trampling on the rights of those suspected in the stoning.
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Although the death penalty is not expressly written into the country's penal code, Saudi Arabia follows Sharia law, which states that same-sex activity is punishable with death by stoning.
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Particicution: A form of execution in which handmaids can kill a prisoner of the state in any manner they see fit, including mass beating, stoning, or being torn to death.
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In the most notorious example, rights groups have accused Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq of killing dozens of gay men by throwing them from buildings or stoning them.
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Kyagulanyi, who has been charged with treason alongside several others for his role in the stoning incident, used crutches in court appearances and was transported in an ambulance at times.
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I recall one such conversation from a few summers ago when a young Muslim man my age justified the stoning of gays because he said it was in the Koran.
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The move comes shortly after Brunei, a small Asian country just across the South China Sea from Taiwan, enacted laws making homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death by stoning.
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Pilgrims participated in a symbolic stoning of the devil, part of the haj rituals, in Jamarat before returning to Mecca, where the Grand Mosque filled with worshippers preparing to depart.
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For the final three days of the hajj, pilgrims sleep in a large tent valley called Mina, and for three days take part in a symbolic stoning of the devil.
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Homosexuality was already illegal in Brunei when the country first announced the new penalties for gay sex, adultery and theft — which include amputation as well as stoning — six years ago.
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The episode was filmed in March, just before the small Southeast Asian country rolled out its interpretation of Islamic laws, punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning.
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Amini learned that a decade earlier in the city of Takestan, in Qazvin province, a man named Jafar Kiani and his alleged lover had been sentenced to stoning for adultery.
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" Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister Clark said the introduction of the new penal code is "shocking news" and "provides for death by stoning as punishment for gay sex.
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Brunei, a former British protectorate, has stated it will roll out new Sharia law punishments from April 3 that include death by stoning or whipping for sodomy, adultery, or rape.
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The political stoning of Zuma served to confirm many South Africans' sense of their own virtue—ironic, because his presidency had been intended to effect exactly the opposite, a communal reckoning.
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Kyagulanyi, who has emerged as a formidable threat to the president, was charged with treason over his alleged role in the stoning of Museveni's convoy during campaigning for a parliamentary seat.
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Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that has long imposed an intolerant form of Islam, with a liberal use of cruel punishments such as beheading, stoning, amputation, lashing and the like.
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Militant groups such as the Nusra Front and the Islamic State had sentenced women accused of adultery to death by stoning, and subjected women who violated their dress codes to lashings.
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Beginning on April 3, statutes allowing stoning and amputation will go into effect, according to an announcement posted by the country's attorney general last year that has only recently received notice.
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Jesus showed that sacrificing the spirit of religion to literalism leads to horrors, like the stoning of innocent women by bigoted men — as it still happens in some Muslim countries today.
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Amid that gore (including a harsh stoning — not that there's any other kind — and an exciting yet vicious conclusion), "Pilgrimage" raises a question or two about unexamined beliefs and religious zeal.
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A person born into the faith, he was seeking answers about the its history, naming past issues of "polygamy, child abuse, stoning disobedient children, pillage, plunder, sexism, racism" in the letter.
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The Shin Bet pointed to links between the yeshiva, or religious school, attended by the suspect in the stoning case and the kind of anti-Zionist, messianic ideology behind the Revolt.
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Apple's phones are also sold in Pakistan, where homosexual acts can send people to prison, and in Saudi Arabia, where adultery is punishable by lashing or stoning and apostasy punishable by death.
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The announcement follows a global backlash to the country's announcement in April that it would impose draconian new punishments, including death by stoning, for those convicted of gay sex, adultery and rape.
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They are frequently arrested by the country's "public order police" for their clothing choices or exposing their hair, and subjected to flogging, stoning and other corporal punishment for "morality crimes", including adultery.
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Sudan's morality laws prevent women from gathering in public; dictate the clothes they wear; and authorize the use of corporal punishment, like lashing and stoning, if they violate or criticize the rules.
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Celebrities including Elton John and George Clooney have called on companies to boycott the hotels after Brunei brought in laws earlier this month that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning.
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Those responsible for imposing stoning, amputating, or whipping of criminal suspects would meet these laws' criteria, and the sultan himself could be sanctioned for imposing the new code and ordering its execution.
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The small Southeast Asian country sparked an outcry when it rolled out its interpretation of Islamic laws, or sharia, on April 3, punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning.
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The most blistering scene in the finale involves Janine's being led to the center of a circle of handmaids for a public stoning, a clear echo of a moment from the premiere.
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Punishing women for premarital sex started with former President Zia-ul-Haq's dictatorship or "Islamization," which incorporated Zina (stoning to death), and Hudood (punishments such as whipping, amputation, honor killing) into Pakistani law.
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Respondents also ranked India the most dangerous country for women in terms of human trafficking, including sex slavery and domestic servitude, and for customary practices such as forced marriage, stoning and female infanticide.
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Robert Kyagulanyi, a Ugandan pop star and lawmaker, and MP Francis Zaake were allegedly tortured after they were arrested last month on suspicion of participating in stoning the motorcade of President Yoweri Museveni.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil giant is the largest foreign business operating in the small southeast Asian kingdom, which brought in laws earlier this month that make gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning.
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"The full implementation of sharia penal law will apply severe penalties against consensual same-sex relations, including death penalty via stoning," Ryan Silverio, a coordinator at ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, said in an email.
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On Wednesday, the United Nations said that Brunei was violating human rights by implementing Sharia laws, which punish sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty - including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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HONG KONG — Brunei said on Sunday that it would not carry out executions by stoning for people convicted of adultery and gay sex, after widespread international protest over the brutality of such penalties.
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As she and a colleague drove with the man to the cemetery where he said the stoning had taken place, his radio crackled, and Amini felt the hair on her arms stand up.
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Kyagulanyi, who has emerged as a formidable threat to the president who has been in power for 32 years, was charged with treason over his alleged role in the stoning of Museveni's convoy.
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" Former US Vice President Joe Biden Biden shared a CNN article on the new law on his official Twitter account, writing, "Stoning people to death for homosexuality or adultery is appalling and immoral.
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Under stages two and three of the penal code, sex between two men and adultery both carry a punishment of stoning to death, while sex between two women is punishable with 100 lashes.
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But as of Thursday, April 3, 2019, these ordinances, known as the Hudood laws, which implement stoning for adultery, make theft punishable by amputation and homosexuality punishable by death, are now in effect.
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Israeli Teenagers Are Suspected in Deadly Stoning of a Palestinian Woman Five youths are being investigated for "grave terrorism offenses, including murder," over the death of Aisha Rabi on a West Bank road.
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Starting next week, the small island kingdom of Brunei will start punishing people found guilty of homosexuality and adultery by stoning them to death, drawing horrified outrage from human rights groups around the globe.
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Many recruited religious police forces, called the Hisbah, to confiscate alcohol and arrest adulterers (who are occasionally sentenced to death by stoning, but are never actually stoned) to ensure that citizens did not sin.
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The request was made at a Vatican meeting two days after the United Nations said Brunei was violating human rights by implementing Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.
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The Sultan of Brunei had a similar problem in 2014, when his swank Beverly Hills Hotel was boycotted after the kingdom implemented Islamic criminal laws that call for death by stoning for gay people.
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Respondents also ranked India as the most dangerous country for women in terms of human trafficking, including sex slavery and domestic servitude, and for customary practices such as forced marriage, stoning and female infanticide.
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In order to overturn the stoning sentence for adultery, he and the woman he had slept with would have to go to a cleric for a certificate of temporary marriage, backdated by five years.
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"To defend the threat of amputation and stoning as aiming to 'rehabilitate and nurture' is plainly absurd," Stephen Cockburn, the deputy director of global issues at Amnesty International, said in a statement on Friday.
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HONG KONG — When Brunei announced in 2013 that it was bringing in harsh Islamic laws that included punishments of death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, the move was met with international protest.
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In 2014, citing Shariah law, the sultan put in place a penal code in his country with punishments that included public flogging, amputation and death by stoning for offenses such as adultery, abortion and homosexuality.
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Subsequent pilgrimages avoided a similar disaster by spreading out the times that people can conduct the stoning ritual, and carefully controlling the number of people at the Jamarat at any one time to avoid bottlenecks.
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Brunei, a Muslim-majority former British protectorate with a 400,000 population, has defended its right to implement sharia that punishes sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty - including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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In recent years women of color have become increasingly high value targets for trolls on Twitter, with Leslie Jones leaving briefly after harassment and private images were hurled at her in a veritable digital stoning.
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Previously homosexuality was illegal in Brunei and punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, but human rights groups said the changes would allow whipping and stoning for Muslims found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape.
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The small Muslim-majority former British protectorate on April 3 rolled out further Islamic Sharia laws which punish sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning, and theft with amputation, sparking a global outcry.
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Sheikh Mohamed Abu Abdalla, Al shabaab's governor for Somalia's Jubba regions in the south, said Habiba Ali Isak, a 30-year-old mother of eight children, was killed by stoning in Sakow on Thursday afternoon.
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Photographers documenting the massive pilgrimage have taken dramatic pictures from the air, showing the pilgrims taking part in the sacred rites of Hajj, such as walking around the Kaaba and stoning pillars symbolizing the devil.
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"Each group must abide by the specified paths assigned to each while throwing the jamarat," he said, referring to one of the critical stages of haj, when pilgrims conduct the ritual stoning of the devil.
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By contrast, a woman would have no chance of defending herself to the all-male court, or of being pardoned, and she would go to a merciless death by stoning, shooting or being buried alive.
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"I find it disturbing that it takes beheadings, stoning and long prison sentences to get most people in the art world to protest censorship and repression of artists," Fusco writes in her letter from today.
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On the third day of the hajj, pilgrims throw rocks at three stone pillars near Jamarat Bridge in a re-enactment of Ibrahim (or Abraham) stoning the devil as he tries to follow God's commandment.
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In its conclusion, the parliamentary report said the rights of Kyagulanyi, four other lawmakers, and nearly 30 other people arrested for their alleged roles in the stoning of a presidential motorcade had been "blatantly violated".
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An intriguing aspect of Brunei's barbarous Shariah laws is that if they were to be really enforced, a few of the sultan's ridiculously wealthy, jet-setting kin would be leading candidates for death by stoning.
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Many of the Islamic State's crimes are well documented in their own Facebook and WhatsApp posts, with videos of them burning opponents alive, stoning people to death, training children as fighters, and shooting bound prisoners.
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JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Nearly two million Muslim pilgrims performed a symbolic stoning of the devil on Monday, the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage, a year after the ritual's worst disaster in decades.
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Capital punishment in Brunei: Adultery and gay sex are punishable with death by stoning under Islamic laws that went into effect today in Brunei, a sultanate of about 430,000 people on the island of Borneo.
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But, with all the Mayday-related subterfuge, Waterford family drama, and Gilead-sponsored demands for Janine's death-by-stoning, we don't really get to dig into what that kind of watershed news means for our heroine.
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The Special Needs Network and The John Wayne Cancer Institute are both pulling out of previously scheduled galas at the Beverly Hills Hotel ... and it's all because the hotel owner supports killing gay people by stoning.
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George Clooney is calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of the Asian country of Brunei -- even the L.A. ones -- a week ahead of the day they'll start killing gay people by stoning.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has banned its staff from staying in hotels of the Brunei-owned Dorchester Collection, following the Sultanate's decision to implement Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.
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Brunei, a Muslim-majority former British protectorate with a population of around 400,000, will implement the Sharia laws from Wednesday, punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty, including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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"On this particular April 3rd the nation of Brunei will begin stoning and whipping to death any of its citizens that are proved to be gay," Clooney writes in an open letter published Thursday on Deadline.
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Brunei, a Muslim-majority former British protectorate with a population of around 400,000, on Wednesday began implementing Sharia laws, which punish sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty - including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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In many countries, Wahhabist preaching has encouraged a harshly judgmental religion, contributing to majority support in some polls in Egypt, Pakistan and other countries for stoning for adultery and execution for anyone trying to leave Islam.
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Mullah Saadyar, one of the militant leaders listed on police documents as ordering the stoning of Rukhshana, recently came for treatment for an illness in Ghor's provincial capital, Chaghcharan, but the government did not arrest him.
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Brunei, a Muslim-majority former British protectorate with a population of 400,000, has defended its right to implement sharia that punishes sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty — including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Two million Muslim pilgrims performed a symbolic stoning of the devil on Friday, the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage where hundreds of people were killed in a crush two years ago.
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The sultan of Brunei responded to critics of the harsh Islamic penal code he recently promulgated by suggesting that its most controversial punishment, death by stoning for sex outside marriage, would not in practice be carried out.
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Except that this quiet hamlet attracted global opprobrium about a decade ago when the local council introduced a code of conduct for immigrants that, among other things, warned against stoning women in public and burning them alive.
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When de-stoning, it may be worth wrapping the fruit in a towel if you're injury-prone, leaving the stone exposed, David Shewring, vice-president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, told The Times.
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Previously homosexuality was illegal in Brunei and punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, but the changes would allow whipping and stoning to death for Muslims found guilty of adultery, sodomy and rape, said human rights groups.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday criticized Brunei's decision to implement Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and urged it to ratify and implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
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The United Nations said the Muslim-majority former British protectorate violated human rights on April 3 by implementing Islamic laws which punish sodomy, adultery and rape with the death penalty, including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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Under close supervision and clad in white robes signifying a state of purity, the faithful converged on Jamarat to perform the stoning ritual from a three-storey bridge erected to ease congestion after stampedes in previous years.
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The small Southeast Asian country sparked a global outcry when it rolled out its interpretation of Islamic laws, or sharia, on April 3, punishing sodomy, adultery and rape with death, including by stoning, and theft with amputation.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights watchdog has called on Saudi Arabia to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws it said allowed children to be executed by stoning or punished with amputations and floggings.
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Hundreds of LGBTI people have been killed and thousands injured in recent years, in violence that included knife attacks, anal rape and genital mutilation, as well as stoning and dismemberment, the U.N. said in a report last year.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Ugandan High Court granted bail on Monday to 33 people, including popular songwriter Robert Kyagulanyi, who have been charged with treason over their alleged role in the stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's convoy this month.
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As Al Jazeera's Atassi notes: A 1990 stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel killed almost 1,500 people, while stampedes in the stoning of the devil area in 220, 2000, 22015, 2400, 22016 and 22016 claimed the lives of hundreds.
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But he is demonstrably right in concluding that Islamic orthodoxy deviated from its foundations by "abrogating" the peaceful and tolerant verses of the Quran, by reserving salvation only to Muslims, or by adopting some cruel practices like stoning.
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"On this particular April 3rd, the nation of Brunei will begin stoning and whipping to death any of its citizens that are proved to be gay," Mr. Clooney wrote in an opinion piece published by Deadline last week.
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Stoning was an antiquated Islamic punishment, usually for adultery, that involved burying a married woman and her lover in pits, with their hands tied behind their backs, and pelting their heads and torsos with rocks until they died.
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Riyadh says nearly 20163 pilgrims died when two big groups of pilgrims collided at a crossroads in Mina, a few km (miles) east of Mecca, on their way to performing the "Stoning of the Devil" ritual at Jamarat.
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Two of the most famous stories in the New Testament -- the conversion of Paul and the stoning death of Stephen, one of the first Christian martyrs - show that people seized by religious visions are willing to die, Carrier says.
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In the past decade, the Kingdom has overhauled the site of the stoning of the symbolic devil, turning it into a five-story complex with the world's largest pedestrian bridge, dozens of entrances, exits, escalators, and emergency escape routes.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - European Union diplomats in Uganda on Friday deplored "brutal treatment" of lawmakers arrested over a stoning of President Yoweri Museveni's convoy, and a rights body called for Ugandan authorities to prosecute the perpetrators of the alleged abuses.
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So, next time you're de-stoning one, remember to use a flat surface, run the knife gently through the skin and around the pit, and then carefully remove the stone with a towel, or the blade of the knife.
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The tapestries, which were weaved in Brussels by the famed studio of Pieter van Aelst from Raphael's sketches, depict scenes from the Acts of the Apostles, such as The Stoning of St. Stephen and St. Paul Preaching in Athens.
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It shows a man identified as Commander Talha al-Azawadi, a former head of Timbuktu's Islamic police, which became notorious among locals for banning music and stoning alleged adulterers to death during a brief Islamist militant occupation in 2012.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Prime Minister Najib Razak's government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning, shocking some of his allies and stoking fears of further strains in the multi-ethnic country.
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Fedorov was sad because exactly one minute before transforming into a rusty old sieve, Casey made what must have been the best save of his career, stoning the Russian sniper on a clean bid from just outside the goal crease.
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The militants have employed extreme violence to impose their strict interpretation of Islamic law in territories they seized in 2014, whipping people for smoking, cutting off hands for stealing, stoning women for adultery, and throwing men off of buildings for homosexuality.
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A growing list of officials, celebrities and human rights groups have criticized the billionaire Sultan of Brunei after the government introduced a draconian penal code that includes death by stoning for gay sex, amputation for theft and public flogging for abortion.
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Brunei: The country has said that it will not carry out executions by stoning for people convicted of adultery and gay sex, after widespread protests over the brutality of the Shariah-inspired measures that the sultanate put in place last month.
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Brunei: The country has said that it will not carry out executions by stoning for people convicted of adultery and gay sex, after widespread protests over the brutality of Shariah-inspired measures that the sultanate put into place last month.
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The foreign minister of Brunei has defended his country's new penal code — which made adultery and gay sex punishable by death from stoning, and allows for the amputation of limbs for theft — saying the laws are meant as a deterrent.
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A harsh new criminal law in Brunei — one that includes death by stoning for sex between men or adultery, and amputation of limbs for theft — is now in effect, despite an international outcry from other countries, rights groups, celebrities and students.
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A harsh new criminal law in Brunei — which includes death by stoning for sex between men or for adultery, and amputation of limbs for theft — is now in effect, despite an international outcry from other countries, rights groups, celebrities, and students.
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Rights groups Amnesty International "Pending provisions in Brunei's Penal Code would allow stoning and amputation as punishments -- including for children, to name only their most heinous aspects," Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei researcher at Amnesty International, wrote in a statement this week.
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Last year, Saudi Arabia said that nearly 800 pilgrims were killed when two large groups of pilgrims arrived together at a crossroads in Mina, a few kilometers east of Mecca, on their way to performing the stoning ritual at Jamarat.
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The sultan said that the remaining two phases of the set of measures, which related to crimes that would be punishable by stoning and amputation, would come into full implementation in the following years, but the latter phases were delayed amid international condemnation.
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"You wake up and realize that your neighbors, your family or even that nice old lady that sells prawn fritters by the side of the road doesn't think you're human, or is OK with stoning," a Bruneian gay man told the BBC.
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In one of the harshest examples in the region, Brunei this year put into effect new laws that authorized executions by stoning for gay sex and adultery, although the country's leader said it would maintain a de facto moratorium on the death penalty.
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A harsh new criminal law in Brunei — which includes death by stoning for sex between men or for adultery, and amputation of limbs for theft — went into effect on Wednesday, despite an international outcry from other countries, rights groups, celebrities and students.
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One of the groups behind the rallies was Hizbut Tahrir, an organization dedicated to creating a state governed by a harsh form of Shariah, including stoning adulterers and amputating the hands of thieves, said Ismail Yusanto, a spokesman for the group in Indonesia.
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London (CNN)A British TV awards show and a Swiss-owned travel agency have joined a growing boycott of businesses owned by the kingdom of Brunei, after the country implemented new laws making gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.
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In May, Kenya's high court upheld the country's ban on gay sex, so same-sex relations remain punishable by 14 years in jail, and Brunei announced but then reversed a decision to impose death by stoning for gay sex after a global backlash.
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Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" — a powerful song when used right — just about killed the momentum of the Handmaids leaving the stoning, and Tom Petty's "American Girl" was timed so bluntly at the end that it left me frustrated and rolling my eyes.
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Ahead of the annual party meeting, Najib said it was the responsibility of Muslims to support a plan by the rival Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party to push for the adoption of hudud, the Islamic penal code, that sets out punishments such as amputation and stoning.
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Last month, UMNO convinced parliament to allow members to debate a bill submitted by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) - which has stayed outside the anti-Najib alliance - for the introduction of hudud, the Islamic penal code that sets punishments like amputation and stoning.
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First published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948, the 3,430-word short story describes the quaint hustle and bustle of a small town's annual tradition: a systematic game of chance that ends in the stoning to death of one of the villagers.
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Clooney in late March led calls for a boycott of nine hotels owned by Brunei because of plans by the small Southeast Asian country to impose the death penalty - including by stoning - for gay sex or adultery as it rolled out further Islamic laws.
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The video for "Man That You Fear" is based off a Shirley Jackson short story called "The Lottery" and depicts all the events of a man who was chosen to die by his community on his last day on earth leading up to his death by stoning.
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Under the country's sweeping new sharia law expected to go into effect on April 3, the Southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei will begin punishing people with death by stoning if found guilty of engaging in homosexual intercourse or adultery, setting off outrage from human rights groups.
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JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Muslims from around the world hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on Sunday, the start of the riskiest part of the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, where hundreds died in a crush four years ago.
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The Islamic court regularly meted out public floggings for minor infractions, and ordered the public to attend extreme punishments — for example, the amputation of a hand of a young man caught stealing, and the stoning death of a couple accused of having children out of wedlock.
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In 2014, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jay Leno, Elton John, Ellen DeGeneres and others called for a boycott of the hotel after its owner, the sultan of Brunei, implemented Shariah law in his small oily kingdom in the South China Sea, making homosexuality and adultery punishable by stoning.
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Kyagulanyi, 36, attracted a youth following through songs critical of Museveni and his prominence rose due to an incident in August in which his driver was shot dead and he was detained and charged with treason over what authorities said was the stoning of Museveni's convoy.
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When Brunei put harsh new laws in place this week that made adultery and gay sex punishable by stoning, it focused international attention on the country's sovereign, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, 22, whose vast wealth and family spending have landed his name in the tabloids for decades.
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He has long pushed his predominantly Muslim nation toward a conservative and restrictive form of Islam, and he first announced the new penalties — which, in addition to death by stoning for gay male sex, include amputation for theft and 40 lashes for lesbian sex — six years ago.
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Kyagulanyi attracted a youth following through songs critical of Museveni and his prominence rose due to an incident in August in which his driver was shot dead and he was detained and charged with treason over what authorities said was the stoning of the president's convoy.
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The moments leading up to June making her slightly smirky way down the Waterfords' staircase and the credits smashing to "American Girl" were saturated with voiceover, verbatim from the book, telling us exactly what we'd already understood from June's face before, during, and after the stoning.
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Celebrities such as George Clooney, Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John are again calling for a boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel and other luxury properties owned by the island nation of Brunei, which has enacted highly restrictive religious laws that punish adultery and homosexuality with death by stoning.
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Other rituals include a ceremony where pilgrims throw small pebbles at three large stone walls, called jamarat, to symbolize the stoning the devil that tempted Abraham to defy God, and the slaughtering of an animal (usually a sheep) to honor the animal Abraham slaughtered instead of his son.
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Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said Sunday that the country will extend its moratorium on its sweeping new interpretation of Sharia law, which punishes homosexual people with death by stoning if found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse, amid backlash from celebrities and human rights groups around the world, Reuter reports.
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It told the story of people who died for their faith, all the way from Stephen (whose stoning in the Book of Acts led to the conversion of the Apostle Paul) to contemporary teenagers in religiously oppressive regimes who had chosen death rather than conversion to a faith other than Christianity.
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But if you're not down for the aquatic foot facial (we don't blame you, and not only because it's considered both unsanitary and inhumane), there's a much easier way to get your toes to touchable, soft, and callus-free condition, without stepping into a salon or painfully pumice-stoning your bunions into submission.
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In a region of the world where the stoning and dismembering of women and the torching of homosexuals are treated by some as mere oddities of moral relativism, Alexander could have mentioned many countries that, as she phrases it in her piece, perpetrate "injustices beyond our borders," but she singled out Israel for condemnation. Why?
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When you ask him a question, he begins to answer and then immediately swerves in a different direction, bouncing like a pinball between topics that barely connect to one another — from the Fawnbrook case to clitorectomies and stoning, then Syrian refugees, then a prominent Wahhabi cleric — and seems to increase in velocity as he ricochets off them.
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But now, the 72-year-old sultan of the former British protectorate is in the spotlight for a very different reason as he comes under fire from governments and activists around the world for introducing the Sharia Penal Code, which includes punishments such as death by stoning for adultery or homosexuality, or amputation of limbs for theft.
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At the same time, his restaurant selection, the Polo Lounge, in the Beverly Hills Hotel, came in defiance of a Hollywood boycott that Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John helped start after the sultan of Brunei, whose investment agency owns the hotel, imposed a new penal code in his homeland based on Shariah law, making gay sex and adultery punishable by stoning to death.
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" Likewise, a prescient 1935 article in The New York Times observed that fresh pumpkins seemed to be disappearing from the market: "It appears that canned pumpkin has so displaced the fresh article that the time is not far distant when directions for scooping out seeds, peeling, steaming and draining the big succulent wedges will be as outmoded in the cookery books as instructions on stoning raisins.
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But the former British protectorate has now unveiled plans to roll out sharia law further from April 3 with a new penal code that imposes death by stoning or whipping for sodomy, adultery or rape and amputation of a hand or foot for theft.. The announcement, and particularly the targeting of LGBT+ people, has sparked international outrage with politicians and celebrities calling on Brunei to immediately halt its plans.
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To manage the people who do get to come, the Saudi government has invested billions of dollars in building a vast and elaborate infrastructure in and around the holy sitesa massive hajj terminal at the main airport in Riyadh, a complex network of roads to bring pilgrims to the city of Mecca, wide foot bridges to carry the tens of thousands of pedestrians who move from place to place at preset, staggered times to minimize traffic flow (personal vehicles are prohibited, for obvious reasons, so most people walk everywhere, though some — mostly the elderly — take shuttle buses), multi-tiered galleries around the Kaaba and the jamarat (the stone walls where the symbolic stoning of the devil takes place), and more.
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