Females flogged
Publish date: 30 January 2023
Issue Number: 1012
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: General
* Women and girls have been flogged by militiamen in the eastern DRC for wearing short skirts or trousers, the government said on Saturday. Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde ‘condemned the degrading and inhuman abuses by the militiamen’ from the armed Malaika group. Lukonde said the militia, who are imposing Islamic Sharia punishments in the area under their control, had ‘recently flogged girls and women dressed in short skirts and trousers’.
