Citation

Moszynski P. Br. Med. J. BMJ 2008; 337: a2403.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.a2403

PMID

18988641

Abstract

A 13 year old girl was publicly stoned to death last week in Somalia, as a new upsurge in violence and piracy threaten to disrupt humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting in the country.

Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was killed on 27 October by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismaayo, an area recently recaptured by Islamist insurgents, in front of around 1000 spectators.

She was accused of adultery, in breach of Islamic law, but her father and other sources told Amnesty International that she had in fact been raped by three men.

After the rape her family attempted to report it to the al-Shabab militia, who control Kismaayo, and it was this act that resulted in her being accused of adultery and detained. None of the men she accused of rape was arrested.

Language: en