SAUDI Arabia's judiciary is reviewing a sentence of six months in jail and 200 lashes handed down to a gang rape victim, official media has reported.

Am I the only one who is absolutely enraged? I mean I don't get enraged very easily or very fast, and I have a high tolerance for differences in custom and culture, but this is absolutely mind-blowing. Can someone clarify whether this shit is actually going on or whether I'm just being emotionally manipulated by the media, because it sure is fucking working I can't think straight.

Having done some preliminary research I found out that the ruling class including the royalty in Saudi Arabia are Sunni (majority), and the rapists were also Sunni, and the victim was Shia. Also, that the actual crime that the woman was charged with was not fornication, but being in the same vehicle as an unmarried man. Whether she willingly got into the vehicle or was forced into it is unclear on the facts. The men received token punishment.



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"There is currently a review process being carried out into the ruling by the judicial system,'' the SPA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal as telling reporters from the US-hosted Middle East peace conference.

The sentence against the 19-year-old girl in the ultra-conservative Muslim state has attracted widespread international condemnation, including from human rights groups and the White House.

And the prince of Saudi Arabia has the balls to say this: "What is aggravating in this matter is that individual acts like these are used to attack the Saudi people and its government,'' SPA quoted Prince Saud as saying.