19 year old Gang Rape Victim Flogged 200 times and Sentence to 6months Imprisonment: PHOTO

19 year old Gang Rape Victim Flogged 200 times and Sentence to 6months Imprisonment: PHOTO

6th March, 2015: The victim of a violent gang rape by 7 men has been sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the crimes of speaking to the press and indecency.

The 19 year old victim, went out to meet a friend, according to website Live Buddhism. While in a car with a student friend, two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area. She said she was raped there by seven men, three of whom also attacked her friend.

The young Lady was initially sentenced to 90 lashes after being convicted of violating the Kingdom’s religious diktats on segregation of the sexes, where woman are treated as second class citizens.

After, the woman’s lawyer appealed to the Saudi General Court. But instead of choosing to down the punishments for being the victim of a crime, the court doubled her sentence.
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Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, the lawyer, who defended the woman, reached out to the media after the sentences were handed down.  The court then banned him from further defending the woman, confiscating his license and summoning him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.

Saudi Arabia defended the controversial decision to punish the victim, saying that she was at fault for being out without a male friend, something which was met with international outcry.

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