Posted on 07/08/2008 7:34:37 AM PDT by yankeedame
06 Jul 2008 09:45:28 GMT
RIYADH, July 6 (Reuters) - A Saudi appeals court is due this week to review the case of a biochemist and his female student sentenced to jail and flogging after a lower court ruled their research contact was a front for a telephone affair.
The man was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 600 lashes and his student to 4 months in prison and 350 lashes last November for establishing a phone relationship that led her to divorce her husband.
London-based Amnesty International says it will consider the two as prisoners of conscience if the verdicts are carried out.
The hospital where the man worked in al-Baha in the southwest of the kingdom put him in charge of the masters research the student was doing at the King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah in 2002.
The woman obtained a divorce seven months after she was married in 2004. Her husband then raised the court case, saying the supervisor's phone calls led to the break-up.
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The supervisor, who asked to be identified only as Khalid, 32, told Reuters that over 12 months of trial he and the woman were refused permission to use lawyers or bring witnesses to testify.
The woman was represented in court by her father because Wahhabi rules require a male legal guardian. (Reporting by Andrew Hammond; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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Coming to your hometown if Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Murtha, Boxer, Feinstein, Osama Obama, Kerry, and the rest of the Liberal politically correct have their way including several on the Supreme Court. They’re all out to destroy America, IMO.
Nor would I wish to be near it, if discovered.
great artical. Saudi arabias so called courts and goverment are vile and twisted. Some day i pray the people will take over the whole country and lock up these corrupted judges and officials.
We probably have freepers who’ve spent some time in Saudi Arabia so here’s my question:
How many lashes does it take to seriously maim someone for life? How many to kill?
Americans simply have no way of relating to these punishments, but they seem extreme to me.
Stupid is as stupid does. They know the consequences and yet they still do it.
No one can withstand 600 lashes and live. Same goes for 350 lashes.
In the old days, aboard Royal Navy ships, when you were secured by your thumbs to the grating, you’d probably be lucky to survive three dozens lashes as punishment.
This is severe treatment, alright.
400 lashes for him and 350 for her? I bet no one ever accused the Saudis of being soft on crime...
Not that it makes all that much difference, but in Saudi Arabia these lashes are very often spaced out over the entire sentence. Most of the time it is 25 lashes at a time.
Hmmm. 25 lashes at a time.
Must make for some splendid ruminations about your ‘crime’ and future while strung up by the thumbs in the Saudi’s dungeon.
“Stupid is as stupid does”, doesn’t apply in tyrannies against all things human.
I see. Really something to look forward to. Ugh.
Unfortunately, not all countries have the freedom the USA has for now. At the rate it is going, losing one freedom at a time Big Brother, Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Marxist/Leninist, will soon be in total control.
Then we can sit around and whine about the loss of Conservatism, the right to worship GOD and Freedom because we have allowed the MSM Propaganda machine to run our lives and pick our candidates while we just sit there whine and watch.
Black liberation "theology" is running hard to catch up and gaining ground though...
Less then 350...and they use a cane lash.
She is also always subservient to the husband and males in the family.
Obviously some of these women are happy with their lot and others aren't. Those that aren't end up paying a high price with pain and suffering, often death.
Such is the Religion of Peace and tolerance.
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