Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed

An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.

According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.
Seven men from the majority Sunni community were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years.
But the victim was also punished for violating Saudi Arabia'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.
On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.

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What the hell is this world coming to? A woman who is gang raped 14 times is given 200 lashes and a 6 month prison sentence. I hate to say (actually I don't) bit this another example of religion effecting standard human rights violations. This woman has the right to not be attacked in her own country. She was not dressed provocatively and at no point did she ask her attackers to rape her so why in the world is she getting punished for anything? Being in a car with someone who was not a family member is not a crime! Being in an area where only men are allowed does not constitute a request to be raped.

Religion has no place in Law. Religion has no place dictating what is morally right and wrong. This woman should be freed immediately and given compensation. Unfortunately women are second class citizens in Saudi Arabia and this is Wrong.