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TweetSaudi Kidnap, Rape Victim Faces Lashing for 'Crime' of Being Alone With Man Not Related to Her
Tuesday , March 06, 2007


A 19-year-old Saudi woman who was kidnapped, beaten and gang raped by seven men who then took photos of their victim and threatened to kill her, was sentenced under the country's Islamic-based law to 90 lashes for the "crime" of being alone with a man not related to her.

The woman is appealing to Saudi King Abdullah to intervene in the controversial case.

"I ask the king to consider me as one of his own daughters and have mercy on me and set me free from the 90 lashes," the woman said in an emotional interview published Monday in the Saudi Gazette.

"I was shocked at the verdict. I couldn't believe my ears. Ninety lashes! Ninety lashes!" the woman, identified only as "G," told the English-language newspaper.

Five months after the harsh judgment, her sentence has yet to be carried out, "G" said she waits in fear every day for the phone call telling her to submit to authorities to carry out her punishment.

Lashes are usually spread over several days. About 50 lashes are given at a time.

The woman's ordeal began a year ago when she was blackmailed into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the desert kingdom, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper.

She met the man at a shopping mall and, after driving off together, the blackmailer's car was stopped by two other cars bearing men wielding knives and meat cleavers.

During the next three hours, the woman was raped 14 times by her seven captors.

One of the men took pictures of her naked with his mobile phone and threatened to blackmail her with them.

Back at home in a town near the eastern city of Qatif, the young woman did not tell her family of her ordeal. Nor did she inform the authorities, fearing the rapist would circulate the pictures of her naked. She also attempted suicide.

Five of the rapists were arrested and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for the men.

The Saudi justice ministry, however, said rape could not be proved because there were no witnesses and the men had recanted confessions they made during interrogation.

The judges, basing their decision on Islamic law, also decided to sentence the woman and her original blackmailer to lashes for being alone together in his car.

The Saudi Gazette and The Scotsman contributed to this report.

[supasaiyan99]

TweetSad!!! Very very sad!

[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetWHY ARE THERE LAWS LIKE THIS? THATS CRAZY

[venom27]

Tweetwow

[T-Man007]

TweetBunch of wierdo. What kind of stupid law is that? A women gets kidnapped and raped and it's her fault? How in the world did these morons even find oil? Seriously? That's the most ass backwards thing I've ever heard.

[daved150]

Tweeteddie murphy said it best...what would they do if you got pushed out of a speeding car??!! charge ya with jay walking!!!
those laws are crap!! i cant believe they are so arcaic as to still dish out punishments like that!! i cant even wrap my mind around their thaught proccess!!! they are phuqed up!!!!

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eddie murphy said it best...what would they do if you got pushed out of a speeding car??!! charge ya with jay walking!!!
those laws are crap!! i cant believe they are so arcaic as to still dish out punishments like that!! i cant even wrap my mind around their thaught proccess!!! they are phuqed up!!!!

If it wasn't for oil, those people would be living in the Dark Ages right now. And, when that oil dries up, which it will one day, that's where they will be. They have nothing, there's no land to really farm for a crap, the don't have any exports other than oil and opium, once the oil is gone they are screwed, all of them. They have no concept of wise investing because they haven't had money long enough to learn it.

[FUZO]

TweetI CANT EVEN COMMENT IT MAKES ME SO PISST

[6p6]

Tweetone word "nukem", just put them out of their own misery

[daved150]

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one word "nukem", just put them out of their own misery

ewwww, then we can go there with our little radiation suits and just take the oil!!! i like the way you think!!!

[oddball]

Tweeti cant believe that.

[Klash]

Tweet... and you hear of rape stories similar to this all the time from the middle east. I remember reading an interview of a middle eastern woman who had been set up for a pre-arranged marriage and was raped repeatedly by her "husband" the night of their wedding and her family was next door and turned their stereo up so loud they couldn't hear her yelling. The culture is phucked up. Can you imagine the father, of the bride, stating to the mother, that reminds me of the first night we were together. Crazy $hit...

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... and you hear of rape stories similar to this all the time from the middle east. I remember reading an interview of a middle eastern woman who had been set up for a pre-arranged marriage and was raped repeatedly by her "husband" the night of their wedding and her family was next door and turned their stereo up so loud they couldn't hear her yelling. The culture is phucked up. Can you imagine the father, of the bride, stating to the mother, that reminds me of the first night we were together. Crazy $hit...

I know it's their "culture" but I just don't get it. Noone should have to tell someone else that it's not ok to rape someone or that it's not alright to hand out "lashes" to rape victims. Just imagine all the stuff that goes on within the various tribal communities that we never hear anything at all about. What a world man, what a world.