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The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 18, 2009; 3:53 AM MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia
says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes
for having an affair.
Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, the judge for the group al-Shabab, says the
woman was killed Tuesday in front of a crowd of some 200 people near the
town of Wajid. Abdirahman says the 20-year-old woman had an affair with a 29-year-old
unmarried man and gave birth to a stillborn child. The militants that control much of southern Somalia and have links to
al-Qaida have instituted a conservative reading of Islam's Sharia law. The stoning death was at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over
the last year. It was the second time a female has been killed.
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