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 Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: A Saudi man and his female student face jail and lashes!!! |
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"RIYADH: A Saudi appeals court is due this week to review the case of a biochemist and his female student sentenced to jail and flogging after a lower court ruled their research contact was a front for a telephone affair.
The man was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 600 lashes and his student to 4 months in prison and 350 lashes last November for establishing a phone relationship that led her to divorce her husband.
London-based Amnesty International says it will consider the two as prisoners of conscience if the verdicts are carried out.
"The charges ... do not correspond to recognisable criminal offences," the group said in a statement in April.
A spokesman for the government's Human Rights Commission said he was not immediately able to comment."
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/07/06/africa/OUKWD-UK-SAUDI-DIVORCE.php |
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