Saudi Arabia - Court sentences rape victim

[Anja67]

Das sind genau die Meldungen die den Islam in ein schlechtes Licht rücken... es ist verboten mit nicht verwandten Männern im Auto zu sitzen... nur gibt das irgend einen Mann das Recht die Frau zu vergewaltigen? Eine Frau die NACKT durch die Stráßen läuft hat meiner Meinung nach genau das gleiche Recht vom Staat gegen körperliche Übergriffe beschützt zu werden als eine die total vermummt in der Burka auf der Straße läuft... Die Interpretation der Sharia in S.A. bestraft hier aber nicht die Täter sondern das Opfer... zum Kotzen...

 

 

Report: Court sentences rape victim Fri Nov 16, 12:27 AM ET

 

 

 

A Saudi court sentenced a woman who had been gang raped to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than doubling her initial penalty for being in the car of a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported Thursday.

The decision by the Qatif General Court came in a case that had sparked rare debate about the kingdom's justice system when it surfaced more than a year ago.

 

In its decision Wednesday, the court also roughly doubled prison sentences for the seven men convicted of raping the 19-year-old woman, the Arab News reported on its English-language Web site.

 

According to Arab News, the court said the woman's punishment was increased because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media."

 

She had initially been sentenced to 90 lashes after being convicting her of violating Saudi's rigid laws on segregation of the sexes

Under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, women are not allowed in public in the company of men other than their male relatives..

 

The initial sentences for the men convicted of the gang rape ranged from 10 months to five years in prison. Their new sentences range from two to nine years, the paper said.

 

The attack took place in 2006. The woman has said that it occurred as she tried to retrieve her picture from a male high school student she used to know. While in the car with the student, 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.

 

Reports of the story triggered debate about Saudi Arabia's legal system, in which judges have wide discretion in punishing a criminal, rules of evidence are shaky and sometimes no defense lawyers are present. The result, critics say, are sentences left to the whim of judges.

 

The judges, appointed by the king, have a wide discretion in handing down sentences, often said to depend on their whim. A rapist, for instance, could receive anywhere from a light or no sentence, to death.

 

The woman was identified in the media only as the Girl from Qatif. The case was referred back to the General Court by an appeals court last summer, after the woman's attorney argued the verdict was too lenient for the rapists and unjust for the victim.

 

The court also banned the lawyer from defending her, confiscated his license to practice law and summoned him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.

 

"I explained to them that it was my job to do everything legal in order to serve my client. But they did not listen," the lawyer, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, was quoted by the paper as saying.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_justice&printer=1;_ylt=AuuOiIC1Ao6QNLHIZqCIoJ8UewgF

 

[Selim]

Ich glaube solche Threads sind hier viel besser aufgehoben:

 

http://www.deusvult.info/

 

Und die, die da reinschreiben machen dies hier:

 

http://www.jurblog.de/2007/08/02/radikale-christen-stoeren-veranstaltungen-zum-islam/

 

@ Anja67

 

Kannst du mir einen positiven Bericht in Fernsehen oder Internet über den Islam bringen?

 

Es gibt welche. Aber man nimmt lieber die wo man als Nicht-Muslim sagt:

 

"boah sind das aber komische Menschen. Die Leben ja im Mittelalter. Zum Glück bin kein Moslem."

 

 

Naja, ...

 

Tschüss

[Anja67]

War eigentlich nicht so gemeint wie du es hier auffasst... wie ich oben gesagt habe, dies sind die Meldungen die einen schlechten Eindruck über den Islam hinterlassen... das es sich dabei um Wahabiten handelt weiß ich inzwischen...

 

Doch sicher gibt es auch gute Berichte über Muslims, das ist eigentlich nur ein Beispiel warum der Islam so einen schlechten Ruf hat...

Mich hätte auch die Meinung der Forum-Mitglieder zu diesen Bericht interessiert... Strafe für die Frau Eurer Meinung nach gerechtfertigt oder nicht?