"Dozens of fatwas are issued each year in Bangladesh by the rural clergy at village gatherings after receipt of complaints, usually against women who assert themselves in village family life. They impose flogging and stoning and other humiliating punishments such as shaving of heads, insults and beatings. They are also often involved in their execution.... In October 2000, the UN Special Rapporteur on Religious hitolerance reported that 26 fatwas issued in the previous year were an attempt 'to stifle any efforts to emancipate women'.""
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