Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

Posted by Robert on November 15, 2007 12:30 PM

She made her crime all the more heinous by "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media." Just stay quiet, go along, and things will go better for you, capisce? Sharia Alert from [1] AFP (thanks to Mackie):

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 19-year-old woman -- whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms -- was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape," the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media."


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/saudi-punishes-gang-rape-victim-with-200-lashes.html

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