Rape VICTIM gets sentenced to 6 months prison and 200 lashes

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:33pm

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/17/saudi.rape.victim/index.html

The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.

The victim's attorney, Abdulrahman al-Lahim, contested the rapists' sentence, contending there is a fatwa, or edict under Islamic law, that considers such crimes Hiraba (sinful violent crime) and the punishment should be death.

"After a year, the preliminary court changed the punishment and made it two to nine years for the defendants," al-Lahim said of the new decision handed down Wednesday. "However, we were shocked that they also changed the victim's sentence to be six months in prison and 200 lashes."

The judges more than doubled the punishment for the victim because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to a source quoted by Arab News, an English-language Middle Eastern daily newspaper.

Judge Saad al-Muhanna from the Qatif General Court also barred al-Lahim from defending his client and revoked his law license, al-Lahim said. The attorney has been ordered to attend a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Justice next month.

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The article goes on to explain other ways Saudi Arabia abuses women.

This makes me sick

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/17/saudi.rape.victim/index.html

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 01:33 PM

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:56pm

This is very disgusting but it doesn't surprise me.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:05pm

and yet this government won't stand up to them, well yeah that doesn't really suprise me.

[chris d]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:30pm

well, since we already have access to Saudi oil, there's really no need to "liberate" their women.

[winston89]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:52pm

This is comming from a colture who thinks that if you get rapied its your fault. Look at the recent story with the kite runner movie. Even though the kid actor was acting in a rape scene the peoploe in his home country didn't care and they still thought it was his fault. It was so much a threat that they remvoed him from the country to save his life.


Now, we are talking about rape involvoing a women victim. As far as they are concerned they most likely think that it is doubly thier fault. One for being raped. And two for most likely doing something tha caused it to happen.

It is sad that they think of iut that way over there but it is the truth.

[don logan]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 10:08pm

The Saudis own 5% of our economy, so I guess they are one of the evil regimes that we are ok with. The Saudi royals also have a relationship with the Bush family going back several generations. So it's ok for them ( or the Sudan, or north korea) to be oppressive, but we needed to invade Iraq.

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 10:27am

wow, that is really sad, on so many levels.