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Malaysia: Muslim mob bloodies delivery rider
accused of insulting Islam, then he is arrested
“Delivery rider to be remanded for allegedly insulting Islam,”
by Austin Camoens,
The Star, July 17, 2022:
Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said the 39-year-old suspect, a widower, would be taken to the Sepang Court Complex on Monday (July 18) morning to obtain a remand order.
“Based on our investigations the suspect does not have a prior record. A urine test also conducted on the suspect also came back negative,” he said in a statement on Sunday (July 17)….
The case was classified as causing disharmony, disunity, or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill will, or prejudicing the maintenance of harmony or unity, on grounds of religion and misuse of network facilities.
The first is an offence under Section 298A of the Penal Code while the second is a crime under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act.
Videos and pictures of a man with a bloodied mouth and nose have been circulated on social media and WhatsApp….
Togo: Muslims murder at least 12 civilians
in overnight jihad raids on villages
JUL 18, 2022 9:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
On Jihad Watch, which has been operating daily since 2003, Togo was mentioned once in 2017. That was it until last Wednesday and today. The jihadis who have been operating in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria for years are now expanding their operations. They see that the West is weak and suicidal. There is nothing to stop them.
“At Least 12 Killed in Raids on Northern Togo Villages,”
Reuters,
July 15, 2022:
LOME, TOGO — Armed men killed at least 12 civilians in overnight raids on villages in northern Togo, where Islamist militants have staged several attacks, two local activists and a medical source said Friday.
Spared until recently by the jihadi violence that has ravaged its northern neighbors for the better part of the past decade, Togo has over the past two months experienced a spate of attacks.
They are part of a broader spillover of militant violence into coastal West African countries from the landlocked Sahel region. Benin and Ivory Coast have also been targeted in the past year by militants believed to belong to an al-Qaida affiliate.
The overnight raids were the deadliest to hit Togo to date, topping an ambush in May that killed eight soldiers. The al-Qaida-linked Jamaa Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), which is based in Mali, claimed responsibility for that attack.
A local rights activist, who asked to not be named for security reasons, said suspected jihadis killed 10 civilians in the village of Sougtangou and 10 in Blamonga, both of which are near the border with Burkina Faso.
Another local activist said suspected jihadis had killed at least 12 civilians and a medical source said the death toll was at least 14. They also spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons….
The army said Thursday that it had killed a group of civilians, all teenagers, last Saturday night in an airstrike after mistaking them for jihadis.
Gaza's women and girls see no escape from violence
Issued on: 24/07/2022 - 04:04
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Abassan (Territoires palestiniens) (AFP) – Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her.
"She died from a severe beating, which caused bleeding on the brain and lungs and broken ribs," said her mother Nazmiya.
Sitting with her husband Suleiman in a garden in Abassan, near the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian territory, the 53-year-old talks at lightning speed about last year's killing of one of her two daughters, as well as the loss of an unborn grandchild.
Istabraq's father wipes tears away with the corner of a red-and-white keffiyeh wrapped around his head.
He laments the slow pace of legal proceedings since his daughter's husband handed himself in to the police shortly after the killing.
"The perpetrator admitted his crime, a year and a month until now and nothing's happened," said the 70-year-old.
Femicide is on the rise in Gaza, according to figures from the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, a Palestinian civil society group.
The organisation registered six killings and suspicious deaths related to domestic violence in 2019, a figure which rose to 19 the following year.
UN Women said the situation worsened at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, which resulted in the "lockdown of survivors of violence with their abusers".
Ayah Alwakil, a lawyer from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, said women can consider violence from their husbands normal behaviour in Gaza's patriarchal society, which has been controlled by the Hamas Islamist group since 2007.
Suleiman and Nazmiya Baraka walk in their garden SAID KHATIB AFP
Beautiful garden!
"Some women don't know their rights and some others are afraid of going to court, for lack of family support," she added.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said 38 percent of women in Gaza faced physical or psychological violence from their husbands in 2019, but Alwakil estimated the true figure to be far higher.
Tied up, left to die
Men convicted of killing their wives can be jailed or face the death penalty. But the sentence is reduced if they commit a so-called "honour killing", in which a relative is murdered because they are deemed to have brought shame to the family.
UN Women says such "outdated and discriminatory laws" impede justice.
Additionally, those seeking to escape domestic violence risk losing their children. If a wife obtains a divorce, custody passes to the ex-husband once a daughter turns 11 or a son reaches nine.
Noha Khaziq, 31, stayed with her abusive husband because they had four children.
He killed her in February.
"Her husband tied her up and left her at home so that she couldn't escape and get out. When he returned she was dead," said her brother Abdelaziz, who shares his sister's green eyes.
"We feel satisfied with the death sentence ruling against the husband, five months after the heinous crime, but we demand the sentence be enforced quickly," said the 28-year-old.
The Khaziq family has not seen Noha's children since she was killed, because custody was granted to their father's relatives.
'Not on women's side'
Fifteen years since the Israeli-led blockade of Gaza began, it is almost impossible for women fleeing violence to leave the Palestinian enclave.
In a territory home to 2.3 million residents, around 40 women are staying in only two specialised refuges.
When AFP visited one of them, a woman with bruises covering one side of her face sat in a corner. She was about to return to her husband, rather than risk losing access to her children.
"The law is not on women's side all the time in the Gaza Strip," said Aziza Elkahlout, a spokeswoman for the social development ministry which runs one of the refuges.
More than a year since his daughter was murdered, Suleiman Baraka demands that the wheels of justice be speeded up for cases of femicide SAID KHATIB AFP
"We thought of opening the safe house because of the injustice women are exposed to," she added, blaming the Israeli blockade for Gaza's dire living conditions.
But such reasoning is inadequate for Suleiman Baraka, who says the authorities are partly responsible for his daughter's killing.
"The government helps the offender because it doesn't take any immediate decisions," said Istabraq's father.
He is reminded of his daughter every time he reaches for his phone, whose screen shows a photo of him with his two girls.
More than a year since Istabraq was killed, he warned that delays in reaching justice only "encourage criminals".
© 2022 AFP
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