A leaked internal document written by three members of Iran’s security forces revealed that an Iranian female teenager arrested for protesting against the regime was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered.
Iran erupts in outrage as BBC World's report on Nika Shakarami, an icon of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, reveals she was sexually assaulted and murdered by security forces during the nationwide 2022 protests. https://t.co/NrFfM4867y
A crisis is brewing in northeastern Nigeria as local media reports of suspected Islamic militants abducting dozens of victims near a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) emerged this week.
"It was on Sunday that we got information that over 200 displaced people went to get firewood but unfortunately Boko Haram kidnapped them, allowing only the very young and very old to return."
Just weeks after the northern state of Uttarakhand in India passed a uniform civil code (UCC) that unified personal laws on marriage and divorce and banned certain practices such as polygamy and child marriage, another northern Indian state made an unprecedented move to repeal a colonial-era law on Muslim marriage and divorce to ban child marriage.
A teenage Iranian boy was murdered by his father over his "feminine" behavior and makeup, putting the dangerous conditions of Iran’s LGBTQIA+ community in the spotlight once again after the honor killing of Alireza Fazeli Monfared by his family members in 2021 made headlines worldwide.
A prestigious London school is under fire after its headteacher, dubbed by the media as “Britain’s strictest teacher,” introduced a blanket ban on prayer on its premises. This has sparked debate on the place of religious rituals in schools, especially as the United Kingdom faces a more multicultural, multireligious future.
Seven men from a minority community in the city of Belagavi in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka were arrested for assaulting two cousins after they mistook them for an interfaith couple. Two minors were also imprisoned for the alleged offense.
The incident occurred at the city’s Kote Lake Park around 3 PM on January 6.
Karnataka: ‘Moral’ police attack cousins mistaking them to be interfaith couple, 7 arrested https://t.co/c9nRz78wi3
Authorities in Nashville, Tennessee, arrested a mother, father, and son for assaulting a teenage boy for becoming a Christian after officers conducted a welfare check on the juvenile.
After former students sued for allegedly beating, starving, and sexually assaulting them, a now-defunct Christian boarding school in rural West Virginia settled lawsuits with a record $100 million, lawyers of the victims announced.
A teacher in India is being investigated by authorities after a video of her encouraging students to slap their seven-year-old Muslim classmate surfaced on social media, sparking outrage across the country.
Outrage in India over video of teacher telling kids to slap Muslim student https://t.co/q5FEuaHtkP
