Sudanese Women Call For Fatwa To Make Suicide Halal So They Can Avoid Being Raped
New Age
Islam News Bureau
21 December 2023
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Sudanese
Women Call For Fatwa To Make Suicide Halal So They Can Avoid Being Raped
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Pakistani
Couple Sentenced To Life In Italy For Killing Daughter After She Refused
Arranged Marriage
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Afghan
Girl Medina’s Journey: University To Hospital Bed
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UP Woman
Donated Kidney to Her Brother, Husband Gives Her Triple Talaq over WhatsApp
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Sudanese Women Call For Fatwa To Make
Suicide Halal So They Can Avoid Being Raped
December 20th, 2023
ALBAWABA - Sudanese women are
documenting horrific situations, especially rape cases, amid the war that was
sparked on April 15 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces.
Sexual assaults against Sudanese women
have been on the rise since the start of the war earlier this year. Many women
reported being gang-raped at the hands of militias in the country.
Sudanese women are very terrified to get
raped or sexually assaulted, as many who were raped are seeking birth control
bills to avoid getting pregnant if exposed to sexual assaults.
Many men in Sudan took to social media
to horribly describe how their sisters or female relatives were raped in front
of their eyes.
Disparate women and females in Sudan are
now seeking a Fatwa to make suicide Halal so they can avoid being raped or
sexually assaulted amid chaos in the country and the lack of security.
An activist posted on (formerly
Twitter): "Because if you don't know what is happening in Sudan. The girls
are looking for birth control pills because the Rapid Support Forces are raping
them, and they are asking about the suicide fatwa if the forces reach them
because they will rape them. What is happening in Sudan is ethnic cleansing and
genocide."
Many social media users also said,
"What is happening in Sudan is no less than what is happening in
Gaza."
The United Nations expressed in its
August report worry amid reports of brutal and widespread use of "rape and
other forms of sexual violence" by the RSF.
According to the experts: "The
conflict has led to massive humanitarian consequences. Thousands of civilians
have been killed, and millions have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
Nearly 700,000 refugees and asylum-seekers have been forced to flee to
neighbouring countries."
Source: albawaba.com
https://www.albawaba.com/node/sudanese-women-call-suicide-fatwa-amid-rape-1545770
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Pakistani Couple Sentenced To Life In Italy For Killing Daughter After She Refused Arranged Marriage
File photo of women protesting against so-called honour killings in Pakistan
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December 21, 2023
ROME:A Pakistani couple was sentenced to
life in prison by an Italian court on Tuesday for the 2021 murder of their
daughter after she refused an arranged marriage.
Saman Abbas, 18, was living in Novellara
near Bologna when she disappeared in May 2021, having rejected the previous
year her family's demand that she marry a cousin in Pakistan.
A tribunal in Reggio Emilia in central
Italy ruled that the parents ordered the murder, and that an uncle had
strangled his niece.
The uncle was sentenced to 14 years
after accepting a plea bargain, while two cousins were acquitted in an affair
which shocked the country.
Abbas had denounced her parents to the
police and social workers placed her in a shelter in November 2020.
But she visited her family in April
2021, planning to pick up her passport and start a new life with her boyfriend,
whom her family disapproved of.
She disappeared soon after, and police,
alerted by the boyfriend, raided the family home in May but the parents had
already left for Pakistan.
Read also: Father extradited from
Pakistan to Italy in 'honour killing' case
The young woman was probably killed the
night of April 30 to May 1, according to surveillance camera footage showing
five people leaving the family home with shovels, crowbars and buckets, before
returning two and a half hours later.
A year later Abbas's body was found in
an abandoned farmhouse with a broken neck.
Her brother told police that he had
overheard his father talking about the murder and that it was the uncle who had
killed his sister.
The father, Shabbar Abbas, was arrested in
Pakistan and extradited to Italy in August 2023.
The uncle, Danish Hasnain, was turned
over by French authorities while the cousins were arrested in Spain.
The four men were present at the trial,
but the mother, Nazia Shaheen, is still a fugitive.
Source: tribune.com.pk
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2450649/pakistani-couple-sentenced-to-life-in-italy-for-killing-daughter
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Afghan Girl Medina’s Journey: University
To Hospital Bed
Fidel Rahmati
December 20, 2023
A year ago, Medina used to sit on the university
bench, listening to her professor’s lecture on communication within the
journalism field, diligently pursuing her university studies. However, today, I
found her lying on the hospital bed, struggling with severe weakness, pregnancy
complications, and depression.
She lay motionless on the hospital bed,
appearing disinterested in any conversation. I sat beside her, hoping she would
open up and share the pains that had brought her to this point.
When the university entrance exam
results were announced, Medina was accepted into the journalism program at
Kabul University. It was everything she had wished for: “I joined the
university, and every day I went to class with great enthusiasm. I didn’t have
a camera for practical work, but my mother, who was my sole supporter, sold her
jewelry to buy me a camera.”
Her father and brothers believed she had
studied enough and that university education was not suitable for her. However,
her mother supported her tirelessly until the Taliban administration came into
power, and Medina’s mother could no longer support her daughter’s education.
Medina says, “When I saw female
reporters on television delivering news, my heart would swell with joy. I
always envisioned myself in the newsroom or the field, preparing reports.”
Medina continued, “When the order to
close universities was issued, it felt like a death sentence for millions of
girls who were living in this shattered world. Since then, there hasn’t been a
single day when I felt genuinely happy.”
Medina is one of the victims of forced
marriage. According to her, three months after the university closure, “My
father arranged my engagement to his nephew. We remained engaged for several
months, and eventually, the wedding day arrived, a day that was never a
priority in my plans and life.”
During this time, Medina fell into
severe depression, and now, in her weakened state and poor mental condition,
she lies bedridden in the hospital, unable to eat nourishing food due to the
effects of depression-induced weakness, causing concern among the hospital
staff.
Medina states, “Even before marriage, I
was suffering from chronic depression, and after the wedding, pregnancy
complications were added. This past year has been so difficult and painful for
me that I feel I have aged and weakened like my mother.”
Medina’s mother says, “If the university
hadn’t closed, my daughter would be sitting in a classroom today, passing her
exams, not lying in a hospital bed in this condition.”
Medina’s mother only thought about her
daughter’s education, but the circumstances were beyond her control. According
to her, Medina is still a child herself: “She was neither ready nor willing,
but her father forced her into marriage. How can she take care of herself, let
alone a child?”
Medina’s treating doctor, addressing her
mental and physical condition, says, “Medina has become physically and mentally
weak. Depression, anxiety, weakness, and loss of appetite, resulting from
pregnancy and emotional stress, have placed her in unfavorable circumstances.”
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/afghan-girls-journey-university-to-hospital-bed/
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UP Woman Donated Kidney to Her Brother,
Husband Gives Her Triple Talaq over WhatsApp
December 21, 2023
Tanishq Punjabi
Gonda: In a shocking turn of events, a man
gave triple Talaq to his wife over WhatsApp after she donated a kidney to her
ailing brother. The man works in Saudi Arabia, while the wife stays in Uttar
Pradesh's Bairiyahi village.
The incident unfolded after the wife
took a decision to save her brother by donating one of her kidneys. Little did
she anticipate that the noble act would become the catalyst for the dissolution
of her marriage.
The husband gave her triple talaq soon
after she sent a message to inform him about the kidney donation.
On the complaint of the woman, police
have registered a case and said that they will take legal action. The practice
of triple Talaq had been declared illegal and unconstitutional in the country
in 2019.
Triple talaq is banned under the Muslim
Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, which imposes a punishment of up
to three years in jail. The Supreme Court has said there is no bar on granting
anticipatory bail in such cases, provided the court hears the complainant woman
before granting pre-arrest bail.
The latest case has again sparked a
debate on triple talaq and the need for a uniform civil code, which the
government has already formed committees to discuss. A Uniform Civil Code means
having a common law for all citizens of the country that is not based on
religion. Personal laws and laws related to inheritance, adoption, and
succession are likely to be covered by a common code.
Source: ndtv.com
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/up-woman-informs-husband-she-donated-kidney-he-gives-her-triple-talaq-4714512
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