The new cabinet also issued its first decree, setting severe penalties for the hazily defined crime of "thuggery".

新内阁还发布了第一个法令，对于那些界定模糊的“谋财害命”处以严厉的惩处。

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The cabinet issued the order last week, but did not announce the move, ahead of a convention in Germany next month.

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For months, the security forces did nothing to stop them, even after the women kidnapped policemen and ransacked government buildings, while the two brothers threatened holy war, and even issued a fatwa denouncing a female cabinet minister who had been photographed receiving a hug from a French skydiving instructor.

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