Green Lantern
March 6th, 2007, 6:46:11 AM
that if we do have a long way to go, we have come a long way:
90 lashes for Saudi rape victim
RIYADH: A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gangraped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes — for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday.
In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed a year ago into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom....
...Five men were arrested for the rape and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years by a panel of judges in the eastern city of Qatif, near the woman's hometown.
But the judges also decided to sentence the woman...and the man to lashes for being alone together in the car.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/90_lashes_for_Saudi_rape_victim/articleshow/1726844.cms
90 lashes for Saudi rape victim
RIYADH: A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gangraped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes — for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday.
In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed a year ago into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom....
...Five men were arrested for the rape and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years by a panel of judges in the eastern city of Qatif, near the woman's hometown.
But the judges also decided to sentence the woman...and the man to lashes for being alone together in the car.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/90_lashes_for_Saudi_rape_victim/articleshow/1726844.cms