Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

November 15th, 2007

Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes
Nov 15 10:51 AM US/Eastern

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.

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One Response to “Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes”

Heidi on November 16, 2007 1:02 am
One of these days, all of the women in the Middle East are going to collectively snap and start going postal. I wouldn’t want to be the men there when it happens.