- “The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved amendments to the Securities Brokers (Licensing and Operations) Regulations, 2016 and issued license to the first Shariah-compliant brokerage house in Pakistan.”
- “In a significant move, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appointed Dr. Umar A. Oseni, the esteemed Mufti of Auchi Sacred Kingdom in Edo State, as a distinguished member of the Financial Regulation Advisory Council of Experts.”
- “Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province publicly caned six people accused of breaching Islamic law, including two men who received 77 lashes for having a same sex relationship, in a punishment Human Rights Watch called ‘public torture.'” 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.”
- “The Head of Legislation at the Ministry of Justice [of Afghanistan recently] remarked, ‘So far, laws including the Hearing of Complaints Law, the Law on the Collection of Beggars, and in total seven laws have been ratified.'” 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.”