- “Pakistan has pledged to become fully sharia-compliant in its banking services by December 2027, but still has a long way to go to create a banking sector that provides the services its customers want.”
- “The Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano say they have arrested a popular female TikToker for posting ‘indecent and un-Islamic’ content on the social media app.” 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.”
- “A Turkish lawyer who was detained on Monday for insulting Sharia, the religious law that is part of the Islamic tradition, on social media platform X, has been released from police custody on judicial probation, her lawyer announced.”
- “The Islamist Parti Islam Se Malaysia (PAS) has given its full-throated support to a government plan to revive a contentious bill allowing sharia courts to impose harsher penalties – including more severe whipping – which has previously stirred federal debate over secularism and Islam in Malaysia.”