— Herald Sun reports: “Men sought ‘to kill woman for adultery'”
— “Spanish police have arrested nine men suspected of seeking to have a woman killed after they accused her of adultery, claiming they were following Islamic law, authorities said on Sunday.”
— “The men were arrested on November 14 and seven have been held in jail, a police spokesman said.”
— “According to police, the woman had been taken in March and held in an isolated house in Valls in northeastern Catalonia.”
— “Authorities say the men set up a court there to judge her for adultery.”
— ” ‘These men had formed a kind of court to apply (Islamic) sharia law,” the spokesman said, adding the woman told authorities she was tried and sentenced to death.”
— “She was later able to escape and report what happened to police.”