- “The head of Sharia police in northern Nigeria‘s Kano state announced his resignation on Friday after the governor accused his force of abusive raids and crackdowns on social media influencers.”
- “Afghanistan‘s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted men while thousands of people watched.” 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.”
- “Two transgender Afghan refugees who managed to escape Taliban rule say they [a]re no better off as refugees in Pakistan.”