- “The United States and human rights defenders […] renewed a call for Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to allow female students to return to universities and ensure that women have access to education at all levels.” 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.”
- “This month marks the third year behind bars for 74-year-old Apollinaris Darmawan, [who] was convicted under Indonesian law for ‘blasphemy’ for writing a book and posting on social media his criticisms of Indonesia’s Muslim leaders and Islamic law.”
- In response to “the Federal Court’s [Malaysia] ruling that Section 498 of the Penal Code, which makes it a crime for a man to entice a married woman, is unconstitutional,” Na’im Mokhtar, the Religious Affairs Minister, “said disturbing domestic harmony remains an offence in the eyes of Islamic law.”
- “Primary school pupils expecting halal meat may have been served food which breached the Islamic rule due to a failure in checks, a [United Kingdom] school has said.”