death penalty

Articles

• Sudan: How to help Noura in Sudan and similar cases?
  17 May 2018, by siawi3

  Progressive forces exist everywhere in Muslim contexts, just as they do elsewhere. But they are little considered outside their countries – especially in the West which globally tends to ignore them. Noura’s case is a good opportunity to reach out in solidarity to progressive, feminist, humanist, secular forces in our parts of the world. It is an opportunity to create working links that would last even after we save Noura’s life - as I am now convinced we will, collectively.

• Témoignage d’un homosexuel saoudien
  16 juin 2016, par siawi3

  L’islam condamne l’homosexualité. Mais l’Arabie saoudite semble être le seul pays à strictement appliquer la Shari’ah (loi). La sodomie y est punie de mort. En dépit des condamnations publiques et légales, il y a un espace assez considérable pour les comportements homosexuels. Aussi longtemps qu’en public, les gays et lesbiennes observent une stricte obéissance aux normes islamiques, en privé, ils peuvent faire ce qu’ils veulent.

• Sudan: Speak up in defence of the TRACKs Center accused
  21 September 2016, by siawi3

  On the 26^th of March 2015, the Khartoum-based Center for Training and Human Development or TRACKS center was raided by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). The center, one of Sudan’s few remaining civil society organizations that trains on human rights as well as offers various language and IT diplomas, had its equipment and documents confiscated without a search warrant .Six human rights defenders affiliated with TRACKs center were charged with two offenses: waging war against the state and undermining the constitutional system, carrying the death penalty.

• European Parliament: Resolution on Pakistan, notably the situation of human rights defenders and the death penalty
  19 June 2017, by siawi3

  Pakistan had a moratorium on the death penalty in place until 2015, but reinstated it in the wake of the massacre at the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014; the moratorium was lifted initially only for terrorist activities, but was subsequently extended to all capital offences. Pakistan now has one of the largest death row populations in the world.

• Daring to exist — The Pakistani woman’s fault
  9 June 2016, by siawi3

  The scale of the atrocities — not just the number — but the weird confluence of the public and the domestic, the kitchen sink component of the horror makes it all the more awful. I know how to talk about political injustice and national and imperial militaristic violence, drones and jihadis; I don’t know how to talk about the cruelty that makes a mother, a brother and a father participate in the brutalisation of a daughter, a sister.

• Tutul: the Survivor – An interview with the target of a Bangladesh machete attack
  12 June 2016, by siawi3

  Following the murder of four atheist bloggers in Bangladesh throughout 2015, on October 31 two secular publishers were hit in a coordinated attack. At Jagriti publishing house, Faisal Arefin Dipon was killed. At Shuddashar publishers, the owner Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, better known as Tutul, was struck with a machete and shot at. But Tutul survived.

• Paroles d’athées : Tutul, Le Survivant... Entretien avec la cible d’une attaque à la machette au Bangladesh
  12 juin 2016, par siawi3

  « Aujourd’hui, les ex-grands partis laïques sont complètement dépourvus de toute influence et de tout pouvoir, alors que les islamistes du Jamaat-e-Islam et du Hefazat-E-Islam entre autres semblent presque omnipotents »

• Daech : Tuer les homosexuels pour les purifier
  14 juin 2016, par siawi3

  En décembre 2014, le groupe salafiste a publié son Code pénal qui prévoyait punir les homosexuels en les condamnant à l’exil ou à des centaines de coups de fouet. Mais dans les faits, sur 25 exécutions répertoriées par l’Observatoire syrien pour les droits de l’homme, 6 victimes ont été lapidées, 3 ont été abattues et 16 ont été précipitées dans le vide.

• Bangladesh: Attacking dissent
  16 December 2016, by siawi3

  Bangladesh has a complicated history with religion. In recent years, this has resulted in an uneasy balance: constitutionally, Bangladesh is a secular republic, but Islam is still the state religion. This was recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. Extremist groups have exploited Islam’s status and the country’s demographics to further their cause. The country witnessed several targeted assassinations in rapid succession : these people were all targeted for advocating and/or representing a secular society.

• Kuwait: Death threats over free speech. Muslims in Canada respond.
  15 December 2013, by siawi3

  Earlier this week, the Kuwaiti parliament voted to institute the death penalty against any Muslim who is judged by Islamic clerics to have insulted God. Today in Toronto, a group of Muslims are going to say “Enough is enough.” They will honour a 21^st century Muslim reformer in the name of a 10^th century Muslim rebel who died for speaking the truth: the celebrated and controversial Canadian author Irshad Manji will receive the first “Mansoor Hallaj Freedom of Speech Award” by the Muslim Canadian Congress. Hallaj was a Persian mystic Sufi saint who had rebelled against the hierarchy of the Sufi Orders and had taken his message to the masses, making enemies in high places. He was beheaded after refusing to recant. Since that day, no Muslim group has dared celebrate the man who died for the truth. Except today in Toronto when Irshad Manji receives the award named after the 10^th century Sufi saint. Join us this evening at the Toronto Library on Palmerston St. as we stand tall in the face of medieval madness.

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