The court ruling has also prompted Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration into vowing to pursue Bill 355, a controversial piece of legislation on sharia legal reforms tabled in parliament by …
Malaysia’s highest court on Friday ruled that the Islamist-led Kelantan state cannot expand its sharia law to include criminal acts already covered by federal powers, in a landmark case that …
Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for “violating public morals” and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said. “The convicted, Roya Heshmati, encouraged permissiveness [by …
Nigerian security personnel have arrested more than 70 young people after accusing them of organising a gay wedding in northeastern Gombe state, a security spokesman said on Monday, in the …