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lazycomputerkids
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Neil McBeath
Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: 40 Lashes and 4 months |
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This is an old story, and a dead story.
On May 21st, the Saudi appeal court threw out the original judgement.
The Saudi appeal court found that (A) the defence regarding the relationship between the defendant and one of the young men was sound, and was indeed, common knowledge in the community.
Secondly, the defendant's "house" was actually a tent, and so the encounter between the defendant and the two men had effectively taken place in public.
The Lady is now living with a married daughter in Riyadh. |
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007

Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 2684 Location: UK/Veteran of the Magic Kingdom
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Well, I wonder why WLUML is only interested in women living under Muslim laws, and specifically in the Magic Kingdom, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen?
What about Muslim and Christian women in the Israeli prisons?
What about Muslim women in France, Holland, Belgium and Denmark? |
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saharastars

Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 107 Location: Wonderland
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:14 am Post subject: |
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well I guess this thread is truly for the bored-yawn |
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Middle East Beast

Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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007 wrote: |
Well, I wonder why WLUML is only interested in women living under Muslim laws, and specifically in the Magic Kingdom, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen?
What about Muslim and Christian women in the Israeli prisons?
What about Muslim women in France, Holland, Belgium and Denmark? |
What about...what about...what about...
Can you stick to THE issue at hand? I guess not. |
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Middle East Beast

Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: 40 Lashes & 4 Months for 75 yr old Woman |
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lazycomputerkids wrote: |
http://www.wluml.org/english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[156]=i-156-565248
Khamisa Sawadi had been sentenced to 4 months in prison and 40 lashes and will be deported and forbidden from entering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia again |
Welcome to Saudi Arabia. |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Actually the answer to his query was easy. In none of the countries in his question will you find a 75 year old (clearly menopausal) woman arrested and jailed for merely talking to men young enough to be her sons or even grandsons.
It is cases like this that give Saudi and Islam a bad name. I am glad to read that the courts found the arrest as unjust as any sane person would. I hope the sentences of the young men who were only trying to help a poor old woman were also reversed.
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Seonsaengnim
Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 10
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:15 am Post subject: |
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i remember reading this in the news and it broke my heart. wow. |
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