Shariatpur, Bangladesh (CNN) — Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl.
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: 101lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public.
Hena dropped after 70.
Darbesh Khan and his wife, Aklima Begum, had to watch their youngest daughter being whipped until she dropped. (My question. What did Darbesh say about Sharia prior to his daughter’s death? What did he do about it?)
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.
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