- “A court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province found two men guilty of sexual relations today and sentenced them to be publicly flogged, an official said.” 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.”
- “Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces signed a charter with allied political and armed groups late on Saturday to establish a ‘government of peace and unity,’ signatories al-Hadi Idris and Ibrahim al-Mirghani said.”