Tag: sharia law

AFP has traced three former victims of "bacha bazi", or the sexual exploitation of boys, whose testimonies lay bare one ...

Clad in camouflage and armed only with their convictions, the paramilitary wing of Indonesia's biggest Muslim organisation is on a ...

Britain has been a prime target for jihadist groups for nearly 15 years, beginning with Al-Qaeda and now the Islamic ...

Two Indonesian men were caned Tuesday in front of a jeering crowd as a punishment for gay sex, in a ...

Two Indonesian men will Tuesday be publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where there ...

Prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh Wednesday recommended 80 strokes of the cane for two men accused of having sex in contravention ...

A group of men arrested in Indonesia for holding a 'gay party' could face up to 15 years in prison, ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war is part of a worrying assault on human rights and democracy across Southeast ...

A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers and ...

Nigeria handed down an astonishing 527 death sentences in 2016, three times more than the previous year, in what Amnesty ...

Indonesia's Aceh looks set to cane two men who admitted having sex in contravention of Islamic laws, an official said ...

A teenage boy pleaded guilty Friday to planning a terrorist attack at an Anzac Day service honouring Australian soldiers in ...

An Indonesian man collapsed while being publicly caned Monday for spending time with a woman who is not his wife ...

Afghanistan is finally set to outlaw the sick 'bacha bazi' practice that sees young boys dressed up as women and ...

Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi" -- the sexual exploitation of boys -- with a slew ...

South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic ...

Jakarta goes to the polls on Wednesday to elect a leader, but a blasphemy case against the Indonesian capital's Christian ...

A Somali man and teenager were publicly executed by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab on Tuesday for committing a homosexual ...

The United Nations warned Friday that the threat from Boko Haram jihadists was complicating efforts to help tens of thousands ...

More than two-thirds of the foreigners seeking to join the Islamic State (IS) group have attended high school or university, ...