{"id":3869,"date":"2007-11-17T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/17\/saudi-arabia-increases-punishment-of-rape-victim-because-she-didnt-shut-up\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:24:39","slug":"saudi-arabia-increases-punishment-of-rape-victim-because-she-didnt-shut-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia increases punishment of rape victim because she didn&#039;t shut up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7098480.stm\">From the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in Qatif in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\n<p>Seven men were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The rape victim was punished for violating Saudi Arabia&#8217;s laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.<\/p>\n<p>On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The rapists&#8217; sentences were also doubled by the court. Correspondents say the sentences were still low considering the rapists could have faced the death penalty. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Arab News quoted an official as saying the judges had decided to punish the girl for trying to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lahem [the victim&#8217;s lawyer] said that the judges&#8217; decision to confiscate his licence to work and stop him from representing his client is illegal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/aaru-tuesday.blogspot.com\/\">Thene<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in Qatif in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago. Seven men were found guilty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3869\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}