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Coming out of Bangladesh:<\/p>\n
Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man. The imam from the local mosque ordered the fatwa, or religious ruling, and the punishment: 101 lashes delivered swiftly, deliberately in public.<\/p>\n
Hena dropped after 70.<\/p>\n
Bloodied and bruised, she was taken to hospital, where she died a week later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It gets stranger. Official cause of death?<\/p>\n
Amazingly, an initial autopsy report cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide. Hena’s family insisted her body be exhumed. They wanted the world to know what really happened to their daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The docs are in trouble, though.<\/p>\n
Monday, the doctors responsible for Hena’s first autopsy faced prosecution for what a court called a “false post-mortem report to hide the real cause of Hena’s death.”<\/p>\n
Public outrage sparked by that autopsy report prompted the high court to order the exhumation of Hena’s body in February. A second autopsy performed at Dhaka Medical College Hospital revealed Hena had died of internal bleeding and her body bore the marks of severe injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n