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, 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 His license has been revoked and he has been called to appear before a disciplinary committee for challenging the judgment, which only punished the victim of the crime and not its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.
previous posting on this case:Rape victim was sentenced to 90 lashes-CRUEL JUDGMENT!
source: www.themuslimwoman.org/ page/2/
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