Read more Islamic law stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5742/islamic-law.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:08:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/66126/sudanese-cops-beat-pants-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSupporters of a woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers were beaten and teargassed by police in Sudan yesterday, the Guardian reports. Some her female supporters wore pants in solidarity with Lubna Hussein, in defiance of the country's law against "indecent dressing." "We are here to protest against this law...http://www.newser.com/story/66126/sudanese-cops-beat-pants-protesters.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 05 Aug 2009 3:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65698/nigerian-rebel-leader-dies-in-police-custody.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe leader of an uprising set on introducing Islamic law in Nigeria died in custody today, the BBC reports. Mohammed Yusuf was captured in his in-laws’ goat pen in Maiduguri—and was later seen standing and with no visible injuries by a Reuters reporter. “He has been killed,” a police...http://www.newser.com/story/65698/nigerian-rebel-leader-dies-in-police-custody.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 15:40:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65505/female-un-worker-in-sudan-wears-pants-faces-flogging.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA local woman working for the United Nations in Sudan has been charged with wearing “clothing causing harassment to the public sentiments” and could be flogged 40 times tomorrow for the crime, the Washington Post reports. Lubna Ahmed Hussein and 12 other women were rounded up earlier this month at...http://www.newser.com/story/65505/female-un-worker-in-sudan-wears-pants-faces-flogging.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 16:25:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63165/saudi-prince-to-liberal-bro-stop-spreading-vice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA conservative Saudi prince has exposed a rift in the royal family with an unprecedented attack on his liberal brother, the BBC reports. Prince Khaled called for the assets of Prince Whaled—owner of a huge media empire that includes a big stake in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.—to be...http://www.newser.com/story/63165/saudi-prince-to-liberal-bro-stop-spreading-vice.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 5:44:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60894/ahmadinejad-holocaust-a-big-deception.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today again denied the Holocaust and excoriated the concept of liberal democracy, AFP reports. “Liberal democracy has been exposed to the world by its protection of the most criminal regime in the history of humanity, the Zionist regime,” he said in a campaign speech, referencing Israel....http://www.newser.com/story/60894/ahmadinejad-holocaust-a-big-deception.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Jun 2009 13:02:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57865/saudis-may-outlaw-under-18-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe days of 8-year-olds getting married in Saudi Arabia may be numbered. Spurred by international hostility toward the marriage of a girl that age to a 50-year-old man, the nation is considering a ban on marriage for those under 18, Reuters reports. Such a restriction is “among the options that...http://www.newser.com/story/57865/saudis-may-outlaw-under-18-marriages.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 02 May 2009 11:35:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52851/woman-in-saudi-faces-40-lashes-for-mingling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 75-year-old Syrian woman faces 40 lashes and 4 months in prison for mingling with two men in Saudi Arabia, CNN reports. Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi will also be deported for allowing the men to enter her home last year. The men, sentenced to lashings as well, told police that Sawadi...http://www.newser.com/story/52851/woman-in-saudi-faces-40-lashes-for-mingling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Mar 2009 18:30:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52636/iran-says-it-will-release-us-journalist-in-next-few-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIran will soon free Roxana Saberi, a journalist imprisoned more than a month ago, Reuters reports. Saberi was jailed after buying a bottle of wine, but held on concerns over her working papers. Tehran said its investigation is finished and that the 31-year old Iranian-American’s release is imminent, but the...http://www.newser.com/story/52636/iran-says-it-will-release-us-journalist-in-next-few-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Mar 2009 14:05:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/52110/somalia-will-impose-sharia-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a move to broker peace between his troops and insurgents, Somalia’s president has agreed to militants’ call to impose Islamic law, CNN reports. The law bars girls from school, requires beards for men and veils for women, and bans TV and music. But President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, elected...http://www.newser.com/story/52110/somalia-will-impose-sharia-law.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Mar 2009 10:40:07 CST