Saturday, October 24, 2009

Barbaric

Saudia Arabia continues to un-enlighten the world with its barbaric use of cruel and unusual punishments. In this case its about producing a TV show where a man discusses his sex life.

Gulf News: Saudi female journalist gets 60 lashes for TV show
Riyadh: A Saudi lawyer says a female journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.

Rozanna Al Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.

In the program, aired on a Lebanese satellite channel, Mazen Abdul Jawad, scandalised Saudis by describing an active sex life.

Abdul Jawad received five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.

2 comments:

Jim Sande said...

Horrible, just horrible - flogging a woman for producing a show where somebody talks about sex. Its mind boggling. Also very interesting to remember that this place is George Bush's second home.

Glynn Kalara said...

If these barbarians didn't have OIL we wouldn't even speak with them let alone be hugging these thugs. Both parties are to nice to this so called Kingdom.