Flogging Carried Out Over Premarital Sex

Overriding international condemnation, Nigerian authorities lashed a 17-year-old Muslim girl 100 times with a cane for having premarital sex, the government said.

The flogging of Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who said she was pressured by her father to have sex with three men, was carried out Friday in the northern state of Zamfara. She was in pain afterward but appeared to suffer no major injuries, local reporters said. The government said authorities went ahead with the flogging to put an end to the storm of controversy.