By K I M G A M E L, Associated Press
Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi
tennis coach and two of his
players were shot to death
this week in Baghdad because
they were wearing shorts,
authorities said Saturday,
reporting the latest in a
series of recent attacks
attributed to Islamic
extremists.
The existence of her child was all the evidence
the judge needed.
"We uphold our conviction of death by stoning
as
prescribed by the Sharia" (Iislamic law)
An Islamic appeal court
has upheld a sentence of death by
stoning for adultery against a
Nigerian woman.
Amina Lawal, 30, was found guilty by a court in Katsina
state, Nigeria,
in
March after bearing a child outside
marriage.
(BBC Aug. 19. 2002)
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At
the age of 5, Malika
Oufkir, eldest
daughter of General
Oufkir, was adopted
by King Muhammad V
of Morocco and sent
to live in the
palace as part of
the royal court.
There she led a life
of unimaginable
privilege and luxury
alongside the king's
own daughter. King
Hassan II ascended
the throne following
Muhammad V's death,
and in 1972 General
Oufkir was found
guilty of treason
after staging a coup
against the new
regime, and was
summarily executed.
Immediately
afterward, Malika,
her mother, and her
five siblings were
arrested and
imprisoned, despite
having no prior
knowledge of the
coup attempt.
They
were first held in
an abandoned fort,
where they ate
moderately well and
were allowed to keep
some of their fine
clothing and books.
Conditions steadily
deteriorated, and
the family was
eventually
transferred to a
remote desert
prison, where they
suffered a decade of
solitary
confinement,
torture, starvation,
and the complete
absence of sunlight. Oufkir's horrifying
descriptions of the
conditions are
mesmerizing,
particularly when
contrasted with her
earlier life in the
royal court, and
many graphic images
will long haunt
readers. Finally,
teetering on the
edge of madness and
aware that they had
been left to die, Oufkir and her
siblings managed to
tunnel out using
their bare hands and
teaspoons, only to
be caught days
later. Her account
of their final
flight to freedom
makes for
breathtaking
reading. Stolen
Lives is a
remarkable book of
unfathomable
deprivation and the
power of the human
will to survive.
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Dritan Duka, 30, and his brother, Shain Duka, 28,
were sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years and
Eljvir Duka, 25, was sentenced to life in prison.
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