Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Saudi court sentences 75-year-old woman to 40 lashes, 4 months in jail for mingling with men

Some countries just cry out to be criticized. I'm not afraid to say this kind of action is repulsive.

If this is *truly* God's wish, he's got some 'xplainin' to do. Looks suspiciously man made to me.

A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom's ultraconservative religious police and judiciary...

...The newspaper Al-Watan said the woman met with the two 24-year-old men last April after she asked them to bring her five loaves of bread at her home in al-Chamil, a city north of the capital, Riyadh.

Al-Watan identified one man as Fahd al-Anzi, the nephew of Sawadi's late husband, and the other as his friend and business partner Hadiyan bin Zein. It said they were arrested by the religious police after delivering the bread. The men also were convicted and sentenced to lashes and prison.


Religious police. There is no words to describe how fucked up that is.

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