YEMEN – WOMAN ACCUSED OF ADULTERY & PROSTITUTION IS STONED TO DEATH
By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE and AFP REPORTER
4 January 2016 – A woman has been stoned to death in south-east Yemen after being accused of adultery and prostitution by an Al-Qaeda Sharia court. The married woman was reportedly killed in a public execution in the city of Al Mukalla, which has been under the control of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) since April last year. Al-Qaeda militants ‘placed the woman in a hole in the middle of the courtyard of a military building and stoned her to death in the presence of dozens of residents’, according to an eyewitness report.
‘Justice’: The woman was stoned after reportedly ‘confessing’ to being a prostitute and a pimp, according to a Sharia court set up by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) (file photo)
‘This was the first time we have seen such a thing,’ a witness said.
A copy of the purported verdict issued by a local Sharia court set up by the militants in December, said the married woman had ‘confessed in front of the judges to committing adultery’
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