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Sierra Leone outlaws child marriage, setting the legal age of marriage to 18 years. Offenders could face up to 15 years in prison and-or a fine of around US$4,000, with witnesses to child marriages also facing possible jail or fines.
2024-07-3

A Shia cleric is killed and two more are injured during a stabbing attack at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, Iran.
2022-04-5

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte signs into law a bill outlawing child marriage, with violators facing up to 12 months in prison. Some portions of the law will not go into effect for one year in order to allow Muslim and indigenous communities to prepare.
2022-01-6

Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu Agency reports that the National Intelligence Organization arrested the nephew of exiled Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in an overseas operation, for alleged membership in a terrorist organization. While the agency did not state where he was captured, he was believed to be residing in Kenya, where a local court on May 6 blocked Turkey's extradition request for him.
2021-05-31

A warehouse in Cirebon, Indonesia, collapses onto a neighbouring arts centre where teenagers were preparing for a dance show. At least seven people die, six of them children.
2018-04-16

Over 1,800 muslim clerics in Pakistan issue a fatwa aimed at prohibiting the use of suicide bombing, declaring it haram.
2018-01-16

A lone gunman shoots a Muslim cleric and an associate to death in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Both were still wearing religious garb following afternoon prayers. No arrests have been made.
2016-08-13

Indonesian police arrest four people in connection with the suicide bombing of a mosque in Cirebon, West Java.
2011-10-8

Julian Assange's mother criticises leading figures in the U.S. government who called for her son's assassination on television, and expresses concerns that her son is being targeted by an American fatwā similar to the one brought against the writer Salman Rushdie in 1989.
2011-02-14

Sunni Muslim clerics organize strikes across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to the country’s blasphemy laws.
2010-12-31