Girl Whipped

London bronze medallist Saina Nehwal will be up against Jessica Li of Isle of Man in her round of 16 match.

The teenage girl, dressed in pink, sits in the dirt before six community elders. In a scene captured on a cellphone video, one of the men wags his finger angrily at her. He rages: This girl must be punished. A villager ties her waist with rope, holding the other end, and lifts a tree branch into the air. She bows her head. The first lash comes, the...

A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street.

Police in Afghanistan have arrested five people over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair, an official said on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old girl was whipped to death by clerics for allegedly having an illicit relationshipwith a married man triggering massive protests across Bangladesh.The clerics ordered 14-year-old Mosammet Hena to be whipped by 100 lashes in a Fatwa or a religious court at a village in the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday for allegedly carrying on wi...

London bronze medallist Saina Nehwal will be up against Jessica Li of Isle of Man in her round of 16 match.

The teenage girl, dressed in pink, sits in the dirt before six community elders. In a scene captured on a cellphone video, one of the men wags his finger angrily at her. He rages: This girl must be punished. A villager ties her waist with rope, holding the other end, and lifts a tree branch into the air. She bows her head. The first lash comes, the...

A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street.

Police in Afghanistan have arrested five people over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair, an official said on Tuesday.

A 14-year-old girl was whipped to death by clerics for allegedly having an illicit relationshipwith a married man triggering massive protests across Bangladesh.The clerics ordered 14-year-old Mosammet Hena to be whipped by 100 lashes in a Fatwa or a religious court at a village in the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday for allegedly carrying on wi...