Somali woman stoned to death for adultery
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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