A HIGH profile female journalist is facing 40 lashes after being accused of wearing "indecent" clothes, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who writes for the ...

A 75-year-old Syrian woman has been sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 40 lashes, four months in prison, and deportation for having two unrelated men in her house. Last year a member of the Saudi ...

CAIRO — A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom's ...

Public caning was carried out in Aceh Province, Indonesia’s most Islamic region applying the strictest laws, against a man and woman caught on charges of extramarital relations and alcohol consumption ...

Two standup comedians in Kano state, Mubarak Isa Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala, on Monday got unusual punishments for defaming the character of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on their Tiktok ...