Saudi Justice [UPDATED]
I guess she’s lucky she wasn’t driving when she was raped.
A Saudi court has increased the sentence given to a gang rape victim to 200 lashes of the whip and six months in prison and ordered disciplinary action against her lawyer for talking to the media, the lawyer said on Friday.
“The court blamed the girl for being alone with unrelated men….”
Aren’t they all related over there? It’s pretty much two degrees of King Faisal, and you’re done.
If Saudi women want a better life, I hear there are openings (job openings, that is) in Chinese coal mines. The pay and conditions are incomparably better.
[CNN discovers the story]
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.