40 lashes, 4 months in prison, deportation for 75-year-old widow for

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"mingling" with nephew:? Khamisa Sawadi, 75 and the Syrian widow of a Saudi man, asked two 24-year-old men in April 2008 to bring her five loaves of bread, reports the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan. One of them, Fahd al-Anzi, as was the nephew of her late husband, the other his friend and business partner, Hadiyan bin Zein. They delivered the bread ent to Sawadi's home in the city of al-Chamil, north of Riyadh.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2008/04/strange-sex-stories-from-the-muslim-world

The religious police (the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) then arrested the three on the basis of "citizen information" from al-Anzi's father, who accused Sawadi of corruption, on the grounds that they are not immediate relatives. Sawadi testified that she had breast-fed Anzi when he was a baby (which, in Islamic law, establishes a family bond) and considered al-Anzi as her son, but to no avail; the court denied her claim, citing a lack of evidence.

On March 3, a court found all three guilty and sentenced them to prison terms and lashes. Sawadi, in addition, will be deported after serving her term. The verdict noted that because Sawadi "doesn't have a husband and because she is not a Saudi, conviction of the defendants of illegal mingling has been confirmed." (March 9, 2009) May 21, 2009 update: An appeals court reversed the judgement against Sawadi.
Are those people maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad????????
 

Pascha

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That is completely inhumane.

Would they have let that poor woman die alone of hunger if she had not asked her nephew to bring bread? I am sure they do not have Meals on Wheels.

At least someone got this story to the international media. There must be some Saudis who think this is insane.
 
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