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Two maids jailed, to be lashed for sorcery
A report from Emirates 24/7 on 6 December: A Saudi court gave heavy jail sentences to two Indonesian housemaids and ordered them lashed 700 times with a whip on charges of practising witchcraft to...
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Demand for corporal punishment
From FijiVillage.com on 4 December: Chief wants corporal punishment included in bylaws Teenage pregnancies are not only limited to the urban centres and it takes a huge toll on villages. That is the...
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CP starts in February
From Radio New Zealand, 6 December: Papua New Guinea’s acting secretary for education, Dr. Joseph Pagelio, has issued warnings about plans to use corporal punishment on students in Madang. The Madang...
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Sri Lankans whipped in Saudi
From the Asian Tribune, 27 January 2008 [The] following 5 Sri Lankans migrant workers were sentenced to five years imprisonment and 500 lashes each. They are: 1. Singarayar Calithar Wimalathas from...
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Home punishments remembered
This from 2003: Kat, posting in response to a blog entry on ‘Gut Rumbles’: I grew up in a neighborhood with very few females my own age. The guys in the neighborhood let me tag along as long as I was...
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Iranian activist sentenced to flogging
A report yesterday on Middle Eastern site Zawya: An Iranian appeals court on Saturday sentenced women’s rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari to four years in jail and 74 lashes on charges of waging war...
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Punished by parents in China
ChinaSMACK (a vanilla site) recently featured two posts with a translated version of a discussion on a Chinese bulletin board, that took place in January 2010. It’s introduced with the comment: While...
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Girls whipped in Iran
A long article about fashion designer Tala Rassi, from Marie Claire magazine in April 2010: There’s a memory that has defined my life: I’m standing in line in a long, dark hallway, handcuffed to a...
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The lash of justice
A classic article from The Independent in October 1995: In Saudi Arabia, the girls are held down by a policewoman while they are whipped by a man. In the United Arab Emirates, they are ordered to lie...
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Kenyan girls beaten regularly
From Saturday’s edition of “The Nation” in Kenya: Three in every 10 teachers feel it is wrong to dismiss teachers who have sexual relationships with their pupils… The research shows that four out of...
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