Judgment Reserved In Muslim Marriages Case
All the advocates representing the state argued that it was not within the court's jurisdiction to determine the matter.
The Women's Legal Centre on Friday caused tempers to flare in the high court in Cape Town, when it pointed out that nine...
Iran has amended its internationally condemned law on stoning convicted adulterers to death to allow judges to impose a different form of execution, according to the revision seen by AFP on Thursday.
The controversial practice, in which stones are thrown at the partially buried offender, has...
A soldier has been stoned to death in Pakistan's restive tribal northwest over allegations of an affair with a teenage girl, officials said Wednesday.
A tribal council in the town of Parachinar, close to the Afghan border in Kurram district, ordered the sentence on Anwar-ud Din, who was about...