Tag: lashes
By Jeralyn, Section Foreign Affairs
Posted on Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 01:31:18 PM EST
Tags: Saudi Arabia, lashes (all tags)
Posted on Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 01:31:18 PM EST
Tags: Saudi Arabia, lashes (all tags)
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has intervened and canceled the 60 lashes for female journalist Rozanna al-Yami.
She had worked for a network that produced a show called "Red Lines, examining taboos in the Arab world, including extra-marital sex in Saudi Arabia." She wasn't directly involved with the show itself.
The Saudi man who was on the show discussing his adventures was sentenced to 5 years and 1,000 lashes. Three of his friends who appeared with him on the show got two year sentences, and lashes. The cameraman was jailed for two months, but no lashes. LBC, the Lebanon-based Arabic channel which broadcast the show has been shut down.
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