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TOPIC: "Saudi girl flogged 90 times for camera phone" (Press Trust of India 1/24/10)


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"Saudi girl flogged 90 times for camera phone" (Press Trust of India 1/24/10)
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Saudi girl flogged 90 times for camera phone

STAFF WRITER 19:27 HRS IST

Riyadh, Jan 24 (AP) A teenage girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published today.

Human rights group Amnesty International said the assault happened after the girl was caught with a camera phone at school.

The teenager's name was not immediately available.

She could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah, said Judge Riyadh al-Meihdib.

"The verdict was read out to her at the court and she did not object," al-Meihdib told Al-Watan, a national Saudi daily newspaper.

He said the teacher refused to forgive the girl, who will not appeal the case. The teacher's condition was unknown, and the newspaper had no details about the dispute.

Camera phones are banned at the school.

Al-Watan quoted the school headmaster describing the girl as "about twenty" years old.


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This is ATROCIOUS!!  When are women going to be given equal status in the world?   This boils my blood.. and I do not get so riled up easily...  You know. I am real cool low BP person.. and this really got me going this morning. Aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!

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