name: Daniel Akill
304: THE QATIF GIRL RAPE CASE: You may be the victim, but you shall be punished equally – if not even more – simply because you are a woman or a girl
30 June, 2008
304: THE QATIF GIRL RAPE CASE: You may be the victim, but you shall be punished equally – if not even more – simply because you are a woman or a girl
The Qatif Girl Rape Case Arabic: قضية اغتصاب فتاة القطيف was a much-publicized gang-rape trial in which many facts were covered and after which the victims was sentenced to lashes for being alone in a parked car with a man she was having an illicit affair with, but was later pardoned after international protests.
The rape victim was an 18 year old girl who was gang-raped along with her companion by seven Saudi men in the city of Qatif, (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia) in 2006. The local court sentenced the perpetrators to varying sentences involving 80 to 1,000 lashes and imprisonment up to ten years for four of them. The court also sentenced the two victims to six months in prison and 90 lashes each for the separate crime of conducting an extramarital affair. On appeal, the appeals court more than doubled the victims' sentences to 200 lashes on Tuesday 13th November 2007 because, according to the court’s ruling, the victim attempted to use the media to manipulate the Saudi Justice System, causing an international media-uproar over Saudi Judicial practices. On Monday 17 December 2007, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah, issued an official pardon for the girl, citing his ultimate authority to revise discretionary punishments in accordance with the public good, and stated that the Qatif Girl had been the victim of a brutal crime. The pardon was read by Justice Minister Abdullah Al-Asheikh on Saudi Channel One.
The pardon ordered the suspension of the trial against both defendants: the Qatif Girl and her male companion, who had also reportedly been raped, and the continuation of the review of the sentencing of the seven young men found guilty of rape. The king ordered the Ministry of Justice to give the rapists the strictest sentence possible for their crime. The king also issued a warning that no mercy would be shown to those that dared to violate Islamic Laws or pose a threat to public safety.
My comments: The Qatif Girl and almost all Arab Women and Girls all over the world are treated like slaves or servants, or prisoners at worst; pieces of property or objects of pleasure and amusement to be discarded at any moment, or when they have outgrown their beauty and outlived their usefulness at medium; and retarded children or persons at best by Arab Males.
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