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    • , of having an afaifr 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.The villagers may have been a backward rabble, incapable of joining human society, but her parents refused to let that stop them from getting the truth out.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.The coroner needs an autopsy performed on himself.Khan eyed Hena and began harassing her on her way to school and back, said Hena’s father. He complained to the elders who run the village about his nephew, three times Hena’s age. Dude’s a real pervert. He’s 45, she’s 14.Many months later on a winter night, as Hena’s sister Alya told it, Hena was walking from her room to an outdoor toilet when Mahbub Khan gagged her with cloth, forced her behind nearby shrubbery and beat and raped her.Hena struggled to escape, Alya told CNN. Mahbub Khan’s wife heard Hena’s muffled screams and when she found Hena with her husband, she dragged the teenage girl back to her hut, beat her and trampled her on the floor.The next day, the village elders met to discuss the case at Mahbub Khan’s house, Alya said. The imam pronounced his fatwa. Khan and Hena were found guilty of an illicit relationship. Her punishment under sharia or Islamic law was 101 lashes; his 201.Mahbub Khan managed to escape after the first few lashes.Pervert rapes young girl who was minding her own business. Pervert’s wife beats the victim instead of her pervert husband. Imam blames her for asking for it? A real boy scout must have tied the pervert’s knots.Last month, the court asked the government to explain what it had done to stop extrajudicial penalty based on fatwa. It ordered the dissemination of information to all mosques and madrassas, or religious schools, that sharia is illegal in Bangladesh.Maybe there is some hope for the future. At least they’re trying to go in the right direction, asopposed to several Western nations.Monday, the doctors responsible for Hena’s first autopsy faced prosecution for what a court called a false post-mortem report to hide the real cause of Hena’s death. Good start.Public outrage sparked by that autopsy report prompted the high court to order the exhumation of Hena’s body in February. A second autopsy performed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital revealed Hena had died of internal bleeding and her body bore the marks of severe injuries.Police are now conducting an investigation and have arrested several people, including Mahbub Khan, in connection with Hena’s death.Better.Better still would be for the coroner and whoever else was involved in the autopsy, the imam who issued the fatwa, the village elders, and of course the pervert and his lovely wife to all be locked up in the worst hellhole of a prison they can find. For life.

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