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Saudi democracy - Punish the guilty & the victims...................

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Saudi rape victim gets 90 lashesPublished: Friday, 3 November, 2006, 01:01 PM Doha Time

RIYADH: A Saudi court has sentenced a gang rape victim to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married.

The sentence was passed at the end of a trial in which the Al Qateef high criminal court convicted four Saudis convicted of the rape, sentencing them to prison terms and a total of 2,230 lashes.

The four, all married, were sentenced respectively to five years and 1,000 lashes, four years and 800 lashes, four years and 350 lashes, and one year and 80 lashes.

A fifth, married, man who was stated to have filmed the rape on his mobile phone still faces investigation.

Two others alleged to have taken part in the rape evaded capture.

Saudi courts take marital status into account in sexual crimes. A male friend of the rape victim was also sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone with her in the car.

The court heard that the victim and her friend were followed by the assailants to their car, kidnapped and taken to a remote farm, where the raping occurred.

The victim was quoted by Okaz newspaper as saying she had expected harsher penalties for the assailants, especially as they had pleaded not guilty.

Her husband and family said that they would appeal to the court Saturday for harsher penalties for a crime that has shocked public opinion in Saudi Arabia and been the subject of months of debate. – DPA

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=115654&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

Now don't that get your mind in a twist........

Now don't that get your mind in a twist........

Guess it's rape prevention - Saudi style
Discourage the victims from reporting to the authorities & reduce the local crime statistics in one fell swoop.... Ingenious... no? ???
 
Hey, did Al Jazeera report on this?  Just askin'....
 
In real life it's often not a choice between good or evil, it's a choice between two piles of poop and trying to decide which is the lesser.
 
They have lots of oil and it serves US interests....it's got SFA to do with morality, unfortunately.
 
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