1. Executions under Sharia law are usually carried out by firing squad out of public view.

2. Under Sharia law gay sex illegal, with penalty of death as young as 14 years old.

3. A self-styled "Taliban" intent on imposing sharia law on all Nigerians widened its offensive yesterday in violence that has left 150 people dead.

4. DR AL - ERRIAN : Sharia law gives the people a free choice: to obeyit or to reject it.

5. Under Sharia law in Khartoum , the normal punishment for indecent attire, including trousers, is 40 lashes.

6. Murders are frequent in Dagestan, in parts of which Islamic sharia law is enforced.

7. Fresh religious violence has erupted in the north afterinthe introduction of Islamic Sharia law.

8. Theform of law would replace the traditional charter, which was not as strict as Sharia law.

9. The predominantly Muslim north has progressively ushered in a stricter enforcement of sharia law since 2000.