Comment: Sharia and the death penalty
07 Jul 2012, 3:23 PM
Azra Naseem
This article first appeared on Dhivehisitee. Republished with permission.
On July 1, a Maldivian lawyer was brutally murdered, his body stuffed into a dustbin.
On June 4, militant Islamists tried to murder Hilath Rasheed, the country’s only openly gay rights activist and a rare voice advocating secularism in the Maldives.
On 30 May, a 65-year-old man was killed on the island of Manafaru by robbers after his pension fund.
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