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“My harrowing story, by the teenage girl who was sentenced to 200 lashes . . . .”
Daily Mail ^ | 30. November 2007 | Richard Pendlebury
Posted on 12/01/2007 6:46:42 AM PST by UKrepublican

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “My harrowing story, by the teenage girl who was sentenced to 200 lashes after being gang raped in Saudi Arabia

When a teenage girl was gang raped in Saudi Arabia,a court sentenced HER to 90 lashes. After she complained,it was increased to 200. Now, the victim speaks for the first time...

She was only 19 and a new bride when it happened.

Seven men held her at knifepoint and, for a number of hours, she was subjected to a horrific gang rape.

But when she later went to the authorities, they sentenced her to 90 lashes.

She complained in the media, so the punishment was increased to 200 lashes and imprisonment.

Her lawyer has been suspended for speaking out against it.

Too outlandish to be true? Well, these are the bare facts of the so- called “Qatif girl” case, which has become a cause celebre among Western liberals and in Saudi Arabia, the West’s most important Middle Eastern ally.

Earlier this week, the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, declared that what had happened was, indeed, an “outrage”.

But he did not mean that the rape victim had suffered a gross injustice.

No, only that criticism of his country was a foreign conspiracy.”