- “The United Nations said Thursday it was deeply concerned about recent arrests and detentions of women and girls by Afghanistan‘s Taliban authorities for alleged non-compliance with Islamic dress code.” 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.”
- Oman unveiled a plan “to issue financial instruments like green, social and sustainability bonds as well as loans and sukuk – bonds that comply with Islamic law – whose proceeds will be used to fund and re-finance renewable energy projects.”
- In Iran, a Baha’i family of three has been sentenced to a total of four years of imprisonment for “engaging in educational activities and propaganda against Islamic Sharia law.”
- “An anti-hijab advocate in Iran, Roya Heshmati, has been lashed 74 times by Iranian authorities on charges of “injury to public chastity” for not wearing the mandatory head covering.” 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.”