Iran ( Woman gets 20 years in prison for " Facebook comment " ) OMG ?

An Iranian court has sentenced eight people to a combined 123 years in prison for various charges including insulting the country's supreme leader on Facebook. The sentencing is the latest in a recent crackdown on Internet freedom in the country.

The eight, who were reportedly all Facebook users, were arrested last year by the Cyber Unit of the Revolutionary Guard. The Revolutionary Court in Tehran doled out prison sentences ranging from seven to 20 years for charges of blasphemy, propaganda against the Iranian state, spreading lies, and insulting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The arrests were first reported by the opposition news agency Kaleme.

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For Iranian human rights experts, the sentences are unusually harsh and could signal an intention to warn other Iranian netizens.
"The ruling [...] is clearly intended to spread fear among Internet users in Iran, and dissuade Iranians from stepping outside strict state controls on cyberspace," wrote the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in a statement.
One of the eight, a British woman named Roya Saberinejad Nobakht, received a sentence of 20 years in prison. Her husband said in April that she had been detained in Iran over comments she had made to friends on Facebook and in online chat, calling Iran's government too controlling and "too Islamic," as reported at the time by the Manchester Evening News.

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Pakistan ( Honor " killing" family stoned to death pregnant daughter )

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pregnant woman was stoned to death Tuesday by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore for marrying the man she loved.

The woman was killed while on her way to court to contest an abduction case her family had filed against her husband. Her father was promptly arrested on murder charges, police investigator Rana Mujahid said, adding that police were working to apprehend all those who participated in this "heinous crime."

Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Pakistanis, and hundreds of women are murdered every year in so-called honor killings carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior.

Stonings in public settings, however, are extremely rare. Tuesday's attack took place in front of a crowd of onlookers in broad daylight. The courthouse is located on a main downtown thoroughfare.
A police officer, Naseem Butt, identified the slain woman as Farzana Parveen, 25, and said she had married Mohammad Iqbal, 45, against her family's wishes after being engaged to him for years.
Her father, Mohammad Azeem, had filed an abduction case against Iqbal, which the couple was contesting, said her lawyer, Mustafa Kharal. He said she was three months pregnant.

Nearly 20 members of Parveen's extended family, including her father and brothers, had waited outside the building that houses the high court of Lahore. As the couple walked up to the main gate, the relatives fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from Iqbal, her lawyer said.

When she resisted, her father, brothers and other relatives started beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks from a nearby construction site, according to Mujahid and Iqbal, the slain woman's husband.

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Mohammad Iqbal, right, husband of Farzana Parveen, 25, sits in an ambulance next to the body of his  …

Iqbal said he started seeing Parveen after the death of his first wife, with whom he had five children.

"We were in love," he told The Associated Press. He alleged that the woman's family wanted to fleece money from him before marrying her off.

"I simply took her to court and registered a marriage," infuriating the family, he said.

Parveen's father surrendered after the attack and called his daughter's murder an "honor killing," Butt said.
"I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent, and I have no regret over it," Mujahid, the police investigator, quoted the father as saying.
Mujahid said the woman's body was handed over to her husband for burial.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a private group, said in a report last month that some 869 women were murdered in honor killings in 2013.

But even Pakistanis who have tracked violence against women expressed shock at the brutal and public nature of Tuesday's slaying.

"I have not heard of any such case in which a woman was stoned to death, and the most shameful and worrying thing is that this woman was killed outside a courthouse," said Zia Awan, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist.

He said Pakistanis who commit violence against women are often acquitted or handed light sentences because of poor police work and faulty prosecutions.

"Either the family does not pursue such cases or police don't properly investigate. As a result, the courts either award light sentences to the attackers, or they are acquitted," he said.

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Associated Press Writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.

India ( pregnant woman forced to have baby standing in lobby )

Bharatpur (Rajasthan): In a shocking incident, a pregnant woman was forced to deliver a baby in standing position in open as did not have money to pay a bribe of Rs. 500 asked by hospital authorities for a bed. Tragically, the baby hits the floor and died.

 

According to Rajasthan Patrika, incident sparked outrage. The family of the woman protested against hospital authorities and refused to take the body of the baby.

 

Sitting at the hospital gate with the body of the new-born, people took to sloganeering.

New Delhi ( A female lawyer and 2 activists were beat up " outside court " )

New Delhi: A female lawyer and two activists were allegedly beaten up by a group of persons at the Tis Hazari court here on Friday when they went there in connection with a case filed against an advocate by a woman from North-East alleging molestation. 

 

The incident took place when a 38-year-old woman from Nagaland, who was molested on Thursday night allegedly by a lawyer outside Delhi Vishwavidyalay metro station, came to the court with her advocate and some social activists to record her statement in connection with the incident. 

 

A senior police official said, "We have received the case of a North Eastern lawyer along with two others being attacked." 

 

According to Noshi, the victim's lawyer, the accused and some of his associates, said to be lawyers, beat them up. The crowd also followed and threatened them. 

Noshi, who practices at Saket court, said that she asked the two men accompanying her to escape and herself took another route thinking that the advocates following her would not harm her because she was a co-worker. 

However, the group ran after her for a while after which they slapped her and threatened her if she pursued the case further. 

The police then rescued her and brought her to the police station

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