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| Gunmen kill senior Pakistani military official from Shi'ite minority | | | Gunmen have killed three people, including a senior military official, at a mosque frequented by minority Shi'ite worshippers in the Pakistani city of Sargodha, police said on Monday. Sectarian strife has been worsening in Pakistan, where Shi'ite Muslims make up about 20 percent of the 180 million population. "Brigadier Fazal Zahoor was shot by masked gunmen while taking part in a religious ritual at the mosque," said police official Farooq Hasnaat, adding the attack took place late on Sunday. Hasnaat said the brigadier had received threats from the banned organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba, which says it want to expel Shi'ites from Pakistan. |
| Afghan court sentences seven men to death for gang rape in case that shook capital | | Sunday, September 07, 2014 10:14 AM | |
| | By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan handed the death penalty to seven men on Sunday for raping and robbing a group of women returning from a wedding in a rare case of sexual assault that has shaken the capital and raised concerns over public security at a time of transition. Police said a large group of men, some dressed in police uniforms, and with assault rifles, stopped a convoy of cars in which the women were travelling along with their families in the district of Paghman, just outside Kabul, last month. Crimes against women are common but mostly take place inside homes in Afghanistan's conservative society. Judge Safihullah Mujadidi in a summary trial, televised nationwide, convicted the men of armed robbery and sexual assault. |
| Egypt orders arrest of men over "gay marriage" video | | Sunday, September 07, 2014 6:54 AM | |
| | Egyptian authorities have ordered the arrest of nine men who appeared in a video purporting to show the country's first gay marriage, accusing them of inciting debauchery and undermining public morals. Gay marriage is not legal in Egypt, a conservative Muslim society where the footage, which went viral on social media sites last month, has caused a stir online. Though homosexuality is not specifically outlawed in Egypt, discrimination is rife. |
| With sedition dragnet, Malaysia takes step back to Mahathir era | | Sunday, September 07, 2014 6:40 AM | |
|  By Stuart Grudgings KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities are carrying out the broadest crackdown on the political opposition and social activists since the era of strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad, as traditionalists in the long-ruling ethnic Malay party appear to gain the upper hand. Susan Loone, a reporter at online news site Malaysiakini, which is critical of the government, was the latest to be detained by police on Thursday under the colonial-era Sedition Act, days after a law professor was charged over comments in an online news article on a 2009 political crisis. This year, seven opposition politicians, six of them members of parliament, have been charged with crimes, including sedition, for things they have said. The opposition's de facto leader, Anwar Ibrahim, was convicted and sentenced to jail in March on a sodomy charge that rights groups say was politically motivated.
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