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Lashes for rape victim

A judge in Saudi Arabia has ordered a victim of gang rape to receive 200 lashes — more than double her original sentence for being alone with a man who was not a relative — after she appealed against the lenient sentences given to the men who attacked her. He also jailed her for six months. She was raped 14 times by a gang of seven. Although her attackers were sentenced to between 10 months and five years last year, she was sentenced to 90 lashes as punishment for riding in a car with a man who was not a relative. Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, international news editor at Jeddah-based Arab News, “Most Saudis feel that doubling her punishment on appeal was unfair”. Amnesty International condemned the sentence. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2007

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