Posted on 12/06/2005 3:44:44 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
KOLLAM: A youth from the state of Kerala is facing an "eye-for-eye" punishment in Saudi Arabia after a court found him guilty of blinding an Arab during an altercation two years ago.
The helpless family members of the youth are in tears and prayers hoping that their kin would return unhurt.
Puthan Veettil Naushad, who worked as an assistant in a shop attached to a petrol station near Dammam in Saudi Arabia, was the sole bread-winner of the family comprising his parents, wife and two children at Anchal near here.
His life took a tragic turn two years ago when a Saudi national came and purchased a battery charger from the shop. After a while, the customer returned complaining that the product he bought was faulty and allegedly roughed up Naushad. The Saudi national's left eye was damaged when Naushad reacted in self-defence.
The incident landed Naushad in court, which imprisoned him and ordered that his right eye be scooped out and given to the Saudi national as replacement for his damaged eye.
However, according to the family members, the court of appeal has directed the Saudi national to consider whether Naushad could be pardoned. As per Shariat , the offender can escape punishment if the affected person pardoned him.
As a ray of hope for the grieving family, Naushad rang up his wife Shuhaila from Saudi on Monday to say that he hoped the man who took him to court would show mercy.
PAGING McCain! There is torture out there I tell you.....
It sounds as if the offender was the Saudi, and that he got what was coming.
You can bet if it were the Indian who lost the eye, this would be a non-story.
The Religion of Peace. In Action.
It's Saudi Arabia, what more can you expect? I remember reading on Reader's Digest once how an innocent American (or was it a Canadian?) was brutally tortured to near-death in a Saudi prison.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sampson/
I think it was this guy, but I'm not sure.
what about the price gouging by 'big oil'??? (sarc)
Where's the UN? Where is the outcry from those who are so worried the US tortures terrorists? How barbaric.
Is that word in their vocabulary?
I see no reason for this last line except to let the reader know that the Saudi just might show mercy if Naushad's wife would ... er .... um ....
Where is the UN/? Well mostly they are double parked in new York, using their immunity to laugh at the law.
Kofi is having dinner at someone elses expense and they are asking for more money from the US to pay for gold spigots in the rebuilt UN building.
This is for you, Cinderella Man, forty wacks with a telephone.
So I guess that means that unless the kin of 3000 dead Americans forgive the Islamic “Extremists” for 9/11, Mecca is fair game. So when do we launch? Eye for an eye and all.......
Barbaric is too nice a term for it. And these are the folks that own 20% of the mosques in the USA.
If you are a foreign worker in Saudi, you are just supposed to curl up and take it when a Saudi decides to beat you. You defend yourself, and the Saudi courts will come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Unless this case gets a lot of play in the media, this guy is out of luck.
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