Timbuktu Lashes

• Six young people get 100 lashes in Timbuktu: Mali

  Timbuktu residents say that Islamist extremists controlling the city publicly whipped 6 young people, males and females aged between 16 to 22 years, who each received 100 lashes for having talked with each other on the city streets.

• Teenage girl whipped in public for speaking to men

  A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street.