Posted on 10/24/2009 9:02:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.
Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.
Abdul-Rahman al-Hazza, the spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Information, told The Associated Press he had no details of the sentencing and could not comment on it.
In the program, which aired in July on the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, Mazen Abdul-Jawad appears to describe an active sex life and shows sex toys that were blurred by the station. The same court sentenced Abdul-Jawad earlier this month to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.
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All of you ladies out there better hope that Obama doesn’t try to copy his Saudi brothers.
Is she a FOX anchor?
Pray for America
Look at it this way though — if the American taxpayer had not kept the Saudi regime in power, they (the tax payers) would have had to pay for all the mosques that are being built in this country. So, make a choice.
over 5 years - likely about 20 per month
> over 5 years - likely about 20 per month
Is that a tacit admission on the part of the law, that more than 20 per month would violate the Islamic prohibition against permanent damage from whipping?
Is there any established maximum rate of strokes?
we keep it off -— even Fox news doesn’t do that great of a job reporting the stories that need to be told - I’m tried of turning it on - and waiting 2 hrs for them to get to a story...I can look it on Google in 2.3 seconds...
The News is not what they say they are - I hold them 50% accountable for allowing 0bama into office...whether they supported him or didn’t - the are to blame...
not a shocker from the country that supplied 15 of the 9/11 suicide bomber murderers - remind me again why we tolerate this crap - oh yeah, the oil.
“Grandpa, when this program is over I’ll have a few questions to ask you about erectile dysfunction.”
“Well kid,(feigning scratchy old persons voice) it’s a problem only when taking my BP meds...or watching Helen Thomas doing an interview!”
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