• A person who is accused of blasphemy in Yemen is often subject to vigilantism by governmental authorities. An accused person is subject to Sharia, which...
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    A blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or...
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    Malaysia Blasphemy in Pakistan Blasphemy law in Saudi Arabia Blasphemy law in the United Arab Emirates Blasphemy law in Yemen Islamic extremism Mansur Al-Hallaj...
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    Yemenite Jews (redirect from Jews in Yemen)
    as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Hebrew: יהודי תימן, romanized: Yehudei Teman; Arabic: اليهود اليمنيون), are Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and...
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  • punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage...
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    Christianity Apostasy in Judaism Blasphemy law Capital punishment for non-violent offenses § Apostasy and blasphemy Islam and blasphemy List of former Muslims...
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  • homosexuality or blasphemy, are derived from a strict interpretation of select Quranic verses. Another facet of Islamic jurisprudence recognized in Yemeni courts...
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  • Sharia (redirect from Islamic Law)
    of blasphemy laws in prosecuting members of religious minorities, political opponents, and settling personal scores. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws have...
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    Retrieved 10 February 2013. "Read about 'blasphemy' laws in Yemen". End Blasphemy Laws. "The Death Penalty in Yemen". Death Penalty Worldwide. Archived from...
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  • faith by converting to another religion or abandoning religion, but also blasphemy or heresy by those who consider themselves Muslims, through any action...
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  • Samia al-Aghbari (category Yemeni journalists)
    accused of blasphemy for her comments by Islamists in Yemen. She has also spoken against the prosecution of the people of Baháʼí Faith in Yemen. She expressed...
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  • accused of violating blasphemy laws. In 2005, 80 Christians were behind bars due to these laws. Christians in Pakistan have been murdered in outbreaks of communal...
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  • The common law offence of blasphemy was repealed in 2008. The last person to be imprisoned for blasphemy in the UK was John William Gott in 1922, for comparing...
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    been abandoned in most countries by the end of the 20th century. Decapitation is a legal method of execution in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, and was reportedly...
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  • activists, and several countries in the West condemned the resolutions arguing they amounted to an international blasphemy law. Critics of the resolutions...
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  • security & blasphemy laws in pakistan: A critical analysis. Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 10(1), 121. Rubya Mehdi, The Islamization of the Law in Pakistan...
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  • inappropriate claims. Blasphemy against Christianity was long an important part of British censorship, with the unwritten common law containing an offence...
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  • Yemen". Yemeni in Canada. Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Canada. Archived from the original on 27 January 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2015. "Yemen [Yamaniyyah]:...
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    Zaydism (category Islamic history of Yemen)
    two dynasties ruled in Yemen until the creation of Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. While the rulers ostensibly conformed to Hadawi law (thus the "imamate")...
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    S. (1981), Punishment in Islamic Law, American Trust Pub; pp. 49–68 Forte, D. F. (1994). Apostasy and Blasphemy in Pakistan. Conn. J. Int'l L., 10, 27...
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    intervention in Yemen by sending 30 UAEAF F16 Desert Falcons to Yemen. The intervention was followed by UAE ground troops deployment in Southern Yemen focusing...
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    "enacted laws to grant courts the power to hand down hadd penalties". During the 1990s Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and northern Nigeria followed suit. In 1994...
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  • jurisdictions under Blasphemy law. P Smith (2003), Speak No Evil: Apostasy, Blasphemy and Heresy in Malaysian Syariah Law, UC Davis Journal Int'l Law & Policy,...
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    Qatar (redirect from Law of Qatar)
    2013. Retrieved 10 September 2017. Jenifer Fenton. "Religious law, prison for "blasphemy", severe sexual inequalilty: Qatar's human rights review". Archived...
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    United Arab Emirates war crimes (category Human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates)
    which the Emirates has committed or is accused of committing, primarily in Yemen, Libya, and Syria. These accusations include arbitrary detention, torture...
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    Commemoration Day (category Public holidays in the United Arab Emirates)
    Arab alliance in 2015 to support the Aden-based government recognized by the Persian Gulf states. The number of UAE soldiers martyred in Yemen rose to 45...
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  • as female genital cutting (FGC), differs widely across the world. In international law, there is a consensus that female genital mutilation is a human rights...
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    Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet. Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halal (Arabic: حَلَال, romanized: ḥalāl...
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    category. Hudud crimes are the most serious and include theft, robbery, blasphemy, apostasy, adultery, sodomy and fornication. Qisas crimes include murder...
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  • Pregnancy) Act 2018. Until 2018, blasphemy was prohibited by Article 40.6.1°.i. of the 1937 Constitution. The common law offence of blasphemous libel, applicable...
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