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If You’re a Rape Victim in Bangaladesh You Will Be Lashed to Death

March 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Bangladesh Rape Victim Lashed to Death

This story comes from CNN.

Shariatpur, Bangladesh (CNN) — Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl.

Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the local mosque ordered the fatwa, or religious ruling, and the punishment: 101 lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public.

Hena dropped after 70.

Bloodied and bruised, she was taken to hospital, where she died a week later.

Amazingly, an initial autopsy report cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide. Hena’s family insisted her body be exhumed. They wanted the world to know what really happened to their daughter.

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Filed Under: Bangaladesh, Sharia Tagged With: Bangaladesh, Islam rape victims, Sharia

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