[Reader-list] Rape Victim ordered 200 lashes and prison by Saudi judges

[Pawan Durani]

Would Someone Puhleez link this to Modi , RSS & Hindutva ..........some
intellectual surely would ..............

http://www.themuslimwoman.org/
http://www.themuslimwoman.org/entry/rape-victim-ordered-200-lashes-and-prison-by-saudi-judges/
What can be called a travesty of judiciary, the Saudi Arabia's Higher
Judicial Council has actually sentenced a rape victim to receive 200 lashes
and prison while the perpetrators of humanity's most heinous crime were
allowed to walk free.

The 19-year-old Shiite woman who was raped by six armed men was originally
sentenced to receive 90 lashes for traveling in the car of an 'unrelated
male' at the time of the rape. However after the woman had the temerity of
not unquestioningly submitting herself to be tortured as punishment of being
raped, the judges on Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council more than
doubled her punishment for attempting to influence the judiciary through the
media.

Her lawyer, human right activist Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, has been banned from
carrying her case further. His license has been revoked and he has been
called to appear before a disciplinary committee for challenging the
judgment, which only punished the victim of the crime and not its
perpetrators. The Sunni rapists were given a paltry sentence of one to five
years of imprisonment.

This is the horrendous state of a country that keeps its women forcefully
behind veils only to extenuate and encourage heinous crimes against them in
the name of maintaining social discipline.