As CNN reports:
Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death
March 29, 2011 -- Updated 2309 GMT (0709 HKT)
Darbesh Khan and his wife, Aklima Begum, had to watch their youngest daughter being whipped until she dropped.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Hena Akhter, in her last words to her mother, said she was innocent
- At first, an autopsy said she committed suicide
- But later, the ugly details of her case surfaced
- Her family says she was punished twice -- raped and then lashed
Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the local mosque ordered the fatwa, or religious ruling, and the punishment: 101 lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public.
Hena dropped after 70.
Bloodied and bruised, she was taken to hospital, where she died a week later.
Amazingly, an initial autopsy report cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide. Hena's family insisted her body be exhumed. They wanted the world to know what really happened to their daughter.
Sharia: illegal but still practiced
Hena's family hailed from rural Shariatpur, crisscrossed by murky rivers that lend waters to rice paddies and lush vegetable fields.
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Guess that's not as bad as "kill squads."
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