For the first time in British legal history, a man was given a “deterrent sentence” of four and a half years in prison for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage after he was accused of arranging to send a young girl to Iraq.
A controversial, fugitive Islamic preacher from India went viral on social media after a video of him having a heated exchange with a girl during his visit to Pakistan emerged where the girl asked the preacher a question about the existence of societal ills, including pedophilia, in Islamic societies.
A major child sexual abuse scandal involving a huge Islamic business network in Malaysia emerged after authorities rescued hundreds of children from orphanages linked to the conglomerate.
Malaysia: 572 children under age 18 rescued as Islamic group is investigated for sexual assault of children https://t.co/2EIzOWjAcq
The Iraqi parliament is proposing changes to the country’s family and marriage laws, which would reportedly give more power to Muslim clerics on family and marriage matters and would even open the doors to legalize marriage for children as young as nine years old, with women’s right activists and organizations saying the proposals would “legalize child rape.”
Female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a hospital, and a funeral in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in northern Nigeria that killed over 30 people, according to local authorities on June 30th.
A series of suicide attacks in Nigeria, targeting a wedding ceremony, a hospital, and a funeral, have claimed the lives of at least 18 people and left dozens more injured. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosions pic.twitter.com/YzPVKsVKoa
A court in Iraq sentenced one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wives to death after she was charged with being allegedly complicit in crimes committed by the Islamic State against Yazidi women, Iraq’s judiciary announced on July 10th.
The criminal court in Baghdad imposed a death sentence on the wife of terrorist criminal Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for collaborating with ISIS and imprisoning Yezidi women in her home. pic.twitter.com/usnl3DnW5l
A white woman in Texas has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to drown a 3-year-old girl at a pool and making racist remarks towards her mother, with investigators asking for the case to be treated as a hate crime.
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child in possible hate crime incident https://t.co/Vw9ue56xmo
Two adolescent boys in France were arrested and charged after allegedly raping and committing violence against a 12-year-old girl who was identified as Jewish, sparking outrage throughout the country as it prepares for snap parliamentary elections at the end of June and the beginning of July.
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
