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Check out this story on Rediff.com, where a gang rape victim has been sentenced to receive 200 lashes for being in the car of an unrelated male when the rape happened:
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/nov/15saudi.htm
"The 19-year-old victim was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes by judges from the Qatif General Court, but the case was referred back to an Appeals Court after her lawyer had urged a harsher punishment for assaulters, the Arab News reported."
The rapists were also punished with prison terms, of course, but talk about blaming the victim; this is a travesty. I hope Broadsheet will bring this to light, and try to help raise the international outcry against this barbaric treatment of a poor young woman who has already been through enough. Talk about discouraging victims from coming forward...
