Muslim girl, 19, 'stoned to death after taking part in beauty contest'
By Will Stewart
Last updated at 2:15 PM on 31st May 2011
A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after
taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine.
Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near
her home.
Friends said she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had come
seventh in a beauty contest.
Murdered: Katya Koren was attacked after taking part in a beauty
contest which her friends said angered hardline Muslims
Her battered body was buried in a forest and was found a week after
she disappeared.
Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims
that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming her death was justified
under Islam.
One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest
and told police that Katya had 'violated the laws of Sharia'. Gaziev
has said he has no regrets about her death.
Stoning is a divisive subject among Muslims, with some groups
interpreting it as Islamic law and others disagreeing.
According to Amnesty International's annual report on death sentences
worldwide, issued in April, there were no reports of judicial
executions carried out by stoning in 2010.
Rural: Katya Koren lived in the Crimea region of the Ukraine where her
body was found buried in woodland
However, new death sentences by stoning were reportedly imposed in
Iran, the Bauchi state of Nigeria and Pakistan.
At least 10 women and four men remained under sentence of death by
stoning at the end of the year in Iran, where adultery is the only
crime which carries that penalty under Sharia law.
It was widely imposed as a sentence in the years following the 1979
Islamic revolution, and even though Iran's judiciary still regularly
hands down such sentences, they are now often converted to other
punishments.
International outcry: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced to
death by stoning for adultery
The barbaric practice was thrown into the international spotlight last
year when an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, was sentenced
to death by stoning for adultery after suffering years of abuse at the
hands of her drug addict husband.
Miss Ashtiani's lawyer said she was allegedly beaten and sold for sex
by opium-addict Ebrahim Ghaderzade, who she is accused of killing.
She was jailed for ten years for murder and sentenced to death for
adultery. She was also convicted of having illicit relations for which
she received 99 lashes.
The Iranian authorities eventually suspended the stoning after an
outcry from the international community.
The European Union has called the sentence 'barbaric', the Vatican
pleaded for clemency and Brazil, which has tried to intervene in
Iran's stand-off with the West over its nuclear programme, offered
Miss Ashtiani asylum.
A number of celebrities, including Robert Redford, Robert De Niro and
Sting called for her release in an open letter to the Iranian regime,
backed by more than 80 actors, artists, musicians, academics and
politicians.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392454/Muslim-girl-Katya-Koren-19-stoned-death-beauty-contest-Ukraine.html
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