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It seems too good to be true that the girls won in Iran. We will have to wait and see what falls out, but the rumours are promising.
Update: Alas, it was too good to be true. This story has been proven false even before I posted it!!!
Morality police shut down, Really?
Hijab law under review
December 4, 2022
By Associated Press
Morality police shut down, Iran’s chief prosecutor says Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP/Middle East Images, File)
In a report by ISNA on Friday, Mohamed Montazeri was quoted as saying that the government was reviewing the mandatory hijab law.
Bangladesh horror: 3 men gang-rape a Hindu woman
& send the video to her son’s mobile phone
December 4, 2022
Ratri Bose
Three men – Asad Miah, Milon Miah & Kulu Miah – gang-raped a Hindu housewife, a mother of 2 children, after calling her on the pretext of sewing a quilt. The shocking incident took place in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district in northern Bangladesh, Bengali language national daily Daily Janakantha reported on November 20.
As per the report, the rapists recorded a video of their crime. Then they sent the video to the eldest son of the victim, and threatened to post it on social media if any legal complaint was lodged against them.
However, the victim’s husband filed a complaint that same night with the local police station. Villagers also protested, demanding exemplary punishment to the rapists.
Yet, seven days later, locals allege that Aditmari Police hasn’t taken any action against the 3 accused. Moreover, bricks are being thrown at the victim’s house every night to intimidate them into withdrawing the complaint.
The helpless Hindu family has sought Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention.
This special kind of madness is not restricted to Muslims, but they are certainly more vulnerable to it than any other major demographic.
Bihar: Muslim brutally stabs a Hindu woman, cuts her ears, breasts and
hands in full public view after her husband asks him not to visit their house
He first struck the woman on the back of the head. When she collapsed, he stabbed
her numerous times in the head, back, and stomach with a sharp weapon. He then
cut Neelam's Yadav ears, hands, legs, and breasts off before running away.
5 December, 2022
OpIndia Staff
Neelam Yadav stabbed and butchered by Shakeel Miyan in Bhagalpur, Bihar
In a brutal incident, a 42-year-old married woman named Neelam Yadav was stabbed and chopped into pieces in broad daylight in the middle of a market area on Saturday, December 3, 2022. Neelam Yadav was a resident of Chhoti Deilori falling under the limits of the Pirpainti police station in Bhagalpur, Bihar. She was mercilessly killed by a person named Sheikh Shakeel Miyan.
According to reports, the accused brutally stabbed the woman to death and cut off her hands, legs, ears and breasts before fleeing the crime scene. It is being said that Shakeel was miffed after Neelam Yadav’s husband had forbidden him from visiting their house. Shakeel Miyan was so enraged by this that he attacked his friend’s wife when she was returning home from the busy market area on Saturday.
Shakeel first struck Neelam Yadav on the back of the head. When she collapsed, he stabbed her numerous times in the head, back, and stomach with a sharp weapon. He then cut Neelam’s Yadav ears, hands, legs, and breasts off before running away.
When bystanders saw her writhing in pain, they lifted her up and took her to a nearby sub-divisional hospital from where she was referred to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical Hospital, but Neelam Yadav succumbed to her injuries during the treatment. However, before her death, Neelam Yadav revealed the identity of the perpetrator.
Some villagers who recognised her, informed her husband, Ashok Yadav, and the Pirpainti police station chief Ramkumar Prasad about the incident. On getting the information, Ramkumar Prasad immediately reached the spot with his team and sent Neelam Yadav’s body for post-mortem. A case was registered and a manhunt was initiated to nab the perpetrator.
According to the deceased’s husband, his and the accused Shakeel Miyan’s fields were adjacent to each other, which is why Shakeel Miyan frequented his residence. Ashok Yadav suspected Shakeel Miyan of having evil intentions toward his wife. He also said that Shakeel was hot-headed and often indulged in unnecessary arguments and fights with the villagers, therefore he asked him to stop visiting his home. This enraged Shakeel, who then carried out the heinous act.
The Bhagalpur police, meanwhile, has detained 5 people including Shakeel Miyan’s brother for questioning while the latter is still at large.
Indonesia passes controversial criminal code that bans
sex outside marriage
By Darryl Coote
Protesters hold placards rejecting the draft of a new criminal law during a protest outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Mast Irham/EPA-EFE
Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Indonesian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a controversial sweeping new criminal code that criminalizes sex outside of marriage, disseminating so-called fake news and attacking the "honor or dignity" of the president or vice president.
The criminal code consists of more than 600 articles, and was passed during a House of Representatives' plenary session Tuesday despite strong opposition from human rights and free speech advocates.
Deputy House Speaker Lodewijk F. Paul attempted to temper unrest on Tuesday remarking after the bill was passed that "if there is dissatisfaction of course there are legal steps that can be taken."
"Tell the Constitutional Court," he said in a statement, while asking the public to "let this process continue."
Paul defended the bill, saying it's more inline with Indonesian culture and law than its previous code, which was developed under Dutch colonial rule that lasted from 1816 to the early 1940s.
"We have a new law based on Indonesian conditions, because the law that we have adhered to so far is a law that still adheres to the law passed by the Dutch East Indies," he said.
A coalition of Indonesian journalist organizations were among those who warned that the new code would have a chilling effect on society, stating that at least 19 articles in the new code have the potential to hinder their work.
Lucky Ireeuw, AJI chairman for the city of Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province, said they reject the code's ratification on the grounds that it will stifle free speech by making journalists fearful of being sent to jail for doing their job.
"This regulation will hinder press freedom in the midst of a democracy," Ireeuw said in a statement.
Along with criminalizing sex outside of marriage with up to a year in prison, the new code also penalizes those who attack the honor or dignity of the president and vice president with a maximum sentence of three years behind bars.
Those who broadcast or disseminate news or information they know to be false and which results in unrest can be sentenced to a maximum prison term of six years while those who publish news "reasonably suspected" to be "a hoax" are to be punished for up to four years.
OMGosh, if that were passed in America the entire news media would be wiped out.
Andreas Harsono, an Indonesia researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the new laws are "a setback for already declining religious freedom in Indonesia," the world's fourth largest democracy and home to the planet's largest Muslim population.
I am hard-pressed to see how this affects religious freedom other than freedom of speech which affects everyone.
"The danger of oppressive laws is not that they'll be broadly applied, it's that they provide avenue for selective enforcement," he said.
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