Under sharia law, raped women are prosecuted for adultery or fornication.

The woman 's punishment can be averted if she swears four times by God as testimony that her husband is a liar ,

And the punishment shall be averted from the woman if she bears the testimony four times by the name of Allah , that the man is a liar .

It shall avert from her the chastisement if she testify by God four times that he is of the liars ,

And it will revert the chastisement from her if she testifieth by Allah four times that verily he is of the liars .

But it shall avert the punishment ( of stoning to death ) from her , if she bears witness four times by Allah , that he ( her husband ) is telling a lie .

But punishment shall be averted from her , if she swears four times by God , that he is a liar .

( As for the woman ) , it shall avert the punishment from her if she swears four times by Allah that the man is false ( in his charge )

And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before Allah four times that the thing he saith is indeed false ,

The punishment shall be averted from her by her testifying with four oaths sworn by Allah that he is indeed lying ,

But the punishment will be averted from her if she swears four times that he is of the liars ,

But it will prevent punishment from her if she gives four testimonies swearing by Allah that indeed , he is of the liars .

The spouse will be acquitted of the punishment if she challenges his testimony by saying four times , God is my witness that he is a liar .

And it shall avert the chastisement from her if she testify four times , bearing Allah to witness that he is most surely one of the liars

The wife shall receive no punishment , if she bears witness four times in the name of God that her husband has lied

But it would avert the punishment from the wife , if she bears witness four times ( with an oath ) By Allah , that ( her husband ) is telling a lie

Accusations of adultery date back to the early 19th century.

Furthermore, under the Code on the Person and the Family, adultery was no longer an absolute ground of divorce, and either spouse could put forward adultery as a ground for divorce.

In practice, sentences to death by stoning for adultery were rarely executed, given that four witnesses to the adultery were required.

Honor killings of Iraqi women are justified by alleged promiscuity or adultery.

Sir Thomas Overbury and Dr. Forman were the subjects of an adultery scandal in 1615 in England.

Cross Cultural Issues and the Crime of Adultery , Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 30 April 1981.

This is not an evil which I can decide once and for all to repudiate and never to embrace again, as I was able to do with fornication.

Discard both the visible and invisible sin . For those who sin will be punished for what they have done .

And give up the open and hidden sins those who earn sins will soon receive the punishment of their earnings .

Forsake the outward sin , and the inward surely the earners of sin shall be recompensed for what they have earned .

And leave the outside of sin and the inside thereof verily those who earn sin , anon will they be requited for that which they were wont to do .

Leave ( O mankind , all kinds of ) sin , open and secret . Verily , those who commit sin will get due recompense for that which they used to commit .

So abandon sin , outward and inward . Those who commit sins will be repaid for what they used to perpetrate .

Abstain from sin , be it either open or secret . Indeed those who commit sins shall surely be requited for all they have done .

Forsake the outwardness of sin and the inwardness thereof . Lo ! those who garner sin will be awarded that which they have earned .

Renounce outward sins and the inward ones . Indeed those who commit sins shall be requited for what they used to commit .

Forsake the revealed and hidden sin . Those who earn sin shall be recompensed for what they have committed .

And leave what is apparent of sin and what is concealed thereof . Indeed , those who earn blame for sin will be recompensed for that which they used to commit .

Stay away from both public and secret sins for a sinner will suffer for whatever he has committed .

And abandon open and secret sin surely they who earn sin shall be recompensed with what they earned .

Eschew all sin , open or secret Those who commit sin will receive due punishment for their sins ,

Eschew all sin , open or secret those who earn sin will get due recompense for their earnings .

Mr. Sossa (Benin) said abortion was authorized when the health of the mother was at risk or when pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

Concerning the reasons justifying divorce, these are stated in Article 1778 of the Civil Code, and among them is adultery, abandonment of the family home and any other facts that establish the physical or moral integrity of the petitioning spouse.

Similarly, whereas the Koran requires four eyewitnesses as proof of adultery, mere suspicion of some unregulated, potentially sexual conduct by a woman warrants stoning under customary law.

Also in the Bible, one sees that the death penalty was the accepted punishment for crimes such as homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, idolatry, talking back to your parents and picking up sticks on the Sabbath.

It modifies the Penal Code, taking out the expression honest woman withdrawing the characterization of the crime of adultery and changing the title of one part of the Code, which becomes Pimping and Trafficking of Persons instead of Crimes against Customs , as it currently stands.

Those who accuse their wives and do not have any witnesses except themselves , should swear four times in the name of God , the testimony of each such person being that he is speaking the truth ,

And those who accuse their wives and do not have witnesses except their own statements for such the testimony is that he bear the testimony four times by the name of Allah that he is truthful .