Swiss open rape case against Tariq Ramadan
GENEVA, Sept 17 — Prosecutors in Geneva have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who has been detained in France since February on separate rape charges, Swiss media reported yesterday. The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quoted Geneva’s prosecutor’s office spokesman Henri Della Casa as saying that authorities had decided to […]
Asma, four, ‘raped, strangled to death’ in Mardan
A four-year-old girl was raped before being strangled to death in northwest Pakistan, a district mayor and doctors have said. The body of the victim, who is being named as Asma, was found in a sugarcane field on Sunday in the Jandarpar Gujjar Garhi district of Mardan city, a day after she went missing. “I […]
Parents of raped and murdered girl, 7, seek justice
The parents of a seven-year-old girl who was abducted and raped before being murdered in a northwestern Pakistani city have demanded justice, as news of the incident sparked violent protests demanding better policing. The body of the young girl, Zainab, was discovered in a heap of rubbish in Kasur on Tuesday. She had disappeared on […]
Court fees and fear: Bosnia war rape victims struggle
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Two decades have passed since the war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but Selma – not her real name – still lives in fear. She is a survivor of rape and a former prisoner of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, in which an estimated 100,000 people were killed. Some estimates put […]
Female Clerics Issue Fatwa Against Marital Rape
The world’s largest gathering of female Muslim clerics in Indonesia issued a fatwa Thursday that declare marital rape haram — or forbidden —under Islamic law and urged the government to make it illegal. The Indonesian Women’s Ulama Congress (KUPI2017) issued three fatwas — Islamic legal pronouncements that are typically issued by Muslim clerics . The […]
Somali Rape Law Gets First Test
A gang rape video recorded in central Somalia could serve as a powerful test case for Puntland state’s new sexual violence statute, and potentially for the rule of law in general in Somalia. A group of men arrested and accused of gang raping and stabbing a pair of young girls in Somalia’s Puntland state in […]
Harsh Penalty For Rape In Saudi Arabia
A Saudi Arabia court has sentenced four men to receive a total of 7,000 lashes after raping a woman in front of her family. The four men who forced their way into the home of the victim restrained her husband with electrical wire then sexually assaulted her in front of him and their daughter, Gulf […]
Soldiers Rapes Myanmar Muslim Women: Report
At least eight women in Myanmar belonging to the long-persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya say Burmese soldiers raped or sexually abused them. The claims have come amid a bloody crackdown by the Myanmar military on rural villages alleged to be harboring Rohingya militants who have killed dozens and left thousands of people displaced and living on […]
Malaysia’s child brides
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Men accused of raping underage girls in Malaysia are marrying their alleged victims to try to avoid criminal charges, a child rights group says. Activists have renewed their calls to ban child marriage in the southeast Asian nation after it emerged that a man charged with raping a 14-year-old girl was […]
The Prohibition of Rape in Islam [opinion]
Islam has forbidden rape and sexual abuse since the time of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) until today. Allegations by anti-Muslim activists are only buttressed by the appalling criminal behaviour of terrorist groups acting in the name of Islam who use rape as a weapon of war. Rape by itself is an atrocity, but it is […]