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Saudi rape victim pardoned?
Submitted by Elizabeth on 17 December 2007 - 5:47am.
The AP is reporting that King Abdullah has pardoned this poor woman even though, in his words, it was clear that the sentence was fair.
One wonders how he can possibly believe that. Is this a combination of face-saving for the court and attempt at getting justice for the woman?
In any case, I'm pretty sure she'd have been jailed and lashed were it not for the international outcry and sustained attention brought to the case, which supported the efforts of those who were protesting the sentence inside Saudi Arabia to continue their own lobbying for a reversal.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_justice
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