- “The Supreme Court [of India] . . . reserved its order on interim relief in a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, which, among other provisions, abolishes the concept of ‘waqf by user’ and introduces sweeping changes to the registration and classification of waqf properties across India.” “Senior advocate Kapil Sibal called the Act a creeping acquisition of Waqf properties, alleging that it undermines Muslim rights to manage their endowments.”
- “Iran’s judiciary has agreed to review a death sentence against controversial underground singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, following a legal petition and calls for clemency by Iranian celebrities.”
- “A Pakistani court has raised serious alarm over the growing number of honour killings in the country, calling the practice ‘uncivilised, barbaric, and abominable.'”
- “Pakistan’s parliament . . . passed a significant bill aiming to curb, discourage and eventually eradicate child marriages in the federal capital by raising the legal age of marriage for both sexes to 18 years.”
- “A highly sensitive and potentially divisive legal debate unfolded . . . in Somalia‘s Federal Parliament as members of the House of the People (Golaha Shacabka) were presented with two major legislative proposals, one of which [African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child] has stirred serious concerns over its compatibility with Islamic principles.”
- “The High Court [of Bangladesh] yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of several recommendations made in the Women’s Affairs Reform Commission’s report.”