UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay went to the Maldives, and there she said some things. She said some things relevant to human rights. In an address delivered in parliament last Thursday, Pillay said the practice of flogging women found guilty of extra-marital sex “constitutes one of the most inhumane and degrading forms …
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Dec 10 2011
Tenets of Islam are not subject to change
Tags: Flogging, Religious coercion, Sharia, Theocracy
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