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Thursday, 06 November 2008 13:49 |
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Somalia: Girl stoned was a child of 13
Contrary
to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week
was 13, not 23, Amnesty International can reveal.
Aisha Ibrahim
Duhulow was killed on Monday, 27 October, by a group of 50 men who
stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, in
front of around 1,000 spectators.
Some of the Somali
journalists who had reported she was 23 have told Amnesty International
that this age was based upon a judgement of her age from her physical
appearance.
She was accused of adultery in breach of Islamic
law but, her father and other sources told Amnesty International that
she had in fact been raped by three men, and had attempted to report
this rape to the al-Shabab militia who control Kismayo, and it was this
act that resulted in her being accused of adultery and detained. None
of men she accused of rape were arrested.
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