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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A 19-year-old female victim of gang rape who initially was ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape," has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail for telling her story to the news media.

The new verdict was handed down by Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council following a retrial, the Arab News reported.

The court last year sentenced the six heavily-armed men who carried out the attack against the Shiite woman to between one and five years for committing the crime.

But the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," a court source told the Arab News.

The new verdict issued on Wednesday also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine that forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.

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Go then, there are other worlds than these

This is the sort of thing you get when you institute a theocracy.

I hate fundamentalist extremists of any religious presuasion.

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This is just plain fucking SICK.

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I am so far beyond angry, I have nothing coherent to say here except FUCK FUNDAMENTALISTS governments.

She exposed the corruption and misogyny of their sytem, so she is punished even harder for being the victim.

The Saudis are NOT OUR FRIENDS, and we need to quit treating them like they are.


WW

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So where's MY parade?"

---Margaret Cho

Yes indeed! That is what tends to happen when policies are primarily theory driven!

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jseal,

only if theory derives from "theos".

This combines the worst excesses of many excessive eras, the religious burnings in Britain and their US colonies, Vlad's impalings, Srebrenica and Nanking.

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.

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