Shi'ite Muslim men and boys take part in self-flagellation, or flogging, during a religious procession ahead of the Ashura festival in Peshawar, Pakistan. 5th December 2011
Dhobi Ghat is a well known open air laundromat in Mumbai, India. The washers, locally known as Dhobis, work in the open to wash the clothes from Mumbai's hotels and hospitals. Comm...
The iconic Dhobi Ghat in Mahalaxmi in Mumbai will soon be clean and tourist-friendly officials in Mumbai have announced. Dhobi Ghat are large outside laundry facility, and the city beli...
A small group had gathered in front on the Norwegian Parliament on 18 September 2010 to protest the Iranian regime's decision to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is upon the Jewish people this evening. In preparation, religious Jews perform Malkot - lashing, and Kapparot - swinging a live chicken three times abo...
Many gathered in front of the Iranian embassy to protest against the death penalty, torture and other cruel and inhumane punishments in Iran including the criminalization of consensual ...
Trafalgar Square was packed on Good Friday for The Passion of Jesus, the first Passion Play there since 1965, performed by around 150 devout Christians and a donkey by a group based on ...
DMTX. According to reports by Afghan media, ordered by a local warlord called Fazl Ahad, two Afghan women were publicly flogged in Ghor province in Western Afghanistan. Ghor, Afghanista...
DMTX. Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, judge and Nobel Prize 2003 winner, today addressed her Spanish peers and colleagues at the Consejo General de la Abogacia Española. Madrid, Spain...
Every Good Friday of Holy Week in the Philippino town of Infanta in Quezon, self flagellants roam the streets as a form of sacrifice for a sick family or relative, or to ask for blessin...
Kabul citizens try to return to some state of normalcy that the youth have never been accustomed to. An elderly ice cream vendor, taxi drivers and a photography school can be seen.
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