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 His license has been revoked and he has been called to appear before a disciplinary committee for challenging the judgment, which only punished the victim of the crime and not its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.
Image: Saudigazette
Source: Whyorganic
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I just read that the rapists will only get a few years in prison!!!!!!......In true islam fashion they would be killed for raping.
This proves that Saudi is purely sexist! need i say more?
No need to say more..Is this standard law across the board? Do women always get charged in rapes? Is there anyone with enough power to defend her? Will she survive 200 lashings?
And some people think Saudi is an ideal country...where the people can leave home without locking their homes as there are no thieves...
The point is that they have ceased to be humans so they have got rid of human vices as well as virtues...
No need to say more..Is this standard law across the board? Do women always get charged in rapes? Is there anyone with enough power to defend her? Will she survive 200 lashings?
Islam does not give equal rights to female because they are a commodity for pleasure.
That in itself should be the crime..Do women generally get charged in rapes? Do many come forward after being raped? It’s seems the way justice turns on them, most would, sadly, rather suffer in silence...Do women actually survive 200 lashes? It seems the punishment itself, would be the same as a death sentence.?
In most of the Muslim countries world over,women are not treated equally.Their condition,some times worse than an animal and these women doesnt fights for their right.