- A Nigerian woman has been jailed for blasphemy for 18 months over WhatsApp message that criticized a mob action against another person accused of having blasphemed.
- The morality police in Northern Nigeria has been reported to use “soft techniques” to curb online celebrities’ social media presence which the police view as indecent, one such technique including a meeting to “sensiti[z]e them on the negative effects of immoral content.”
- The Financial Times reported that “[t]he Taliban have carried out hundreds of floggings over the past year as the hardline regime consolidates its control over Afghanistan.” For more content and context on the recent developments in Afghanistan, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Islamic Law.” For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
- Lawyer and human rights activist Nasser El-Rayes recently stated that “[m]arital property law reform is needed in MENA countries to end discrimination against wives.”
- Tulsa World, a local newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma recently compiled a collection of “throwback” photos of lawyers and activists as they took the state constitution’s ban of sharī’a to federal courts and successfully argued that it violated the First Amendment.
- “Over the past four years, assets in Islamic banking have surged from $1.8 trillion to $2.8 trillion, and it is projected to reach $4 trillion by 2026.”