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13/8/2007
UPDATE: Pakistan: Shamial and Shahzina released and together
13/8/2007
UPDATE: Pakistan: Shamial and Shahzina released and together
13/8/2007
UPDATE: Pakistan: Shamial and Shahzina released and together
12/8/2007
Singapore: Muslim family law act comes under review
It may have drawn "deep concern" from a United Nations committee, but Islamic law in Singapore is far from cast in stone.
12/8/2007
India: Writer Taslima Nasrin again attacked by fundamentalists
The Indian police have filed a case against Nasrin for "creating religious tensions".
12/8/2007
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia jails man for taking a woman to hospital
A Nigerian convert to Islam was jailed in Saudi Arabia after he helped a sick 63-year-old woman and was then accused by religious police of immoral behaviour, a newspaper reported on Monday [August 6].
11/8/2007
India: Publication: "HIV/AIDS and the Law", by the Human Rights Law Network
"HIV/AIDS & the Law", released in July 2007 by HRLN's 'HIV/AIDS and the Law Initiative'.
10/8/2007
Kyrgyzstan: Women activists report increasing harassment
Civil society leaders are now calling on the Kyrgyz government to halt persecution of human-rights activists.
9/8/2007
Yemen: CEDAW Shadow Report highlights persisting discriminative laws
The Shadow Report was initiated and coordinated by the Sisters Arab Forums for Human Rights (SAF) and sponsored by the UNDP.
9/8/2007
Sudan: Sudan frees women and children jailed for selling alcohol
Sudan has freed over 1,000 women and children from the south who had been jailed in Khartoum for brewing and selling alcohol, a crime under north Sudan's Islamic sharia law, an official said on Sunday.