Rights groups outraged after Saudi court punishes gang-assault victim Mike Aivaz and Mike Sheehan

Published: Monday November 19, 2007



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Print This Email This A human rights attorney is seeking the restoral of his license so he may file a new appeal on behalf of a Saudi woman who received a harsh court sentence after being sexually attacked, CNN reports. The 19-year-old woman was gang-raped by seven men only to later be sentenced by the Saudi court to 200 lashings and six months in jail for "being alone with a man who was not her relative." Her punishment had been increased after her attorney spoke publicly about the case, a violation of Saudi law which lead to his disbarment. A women's rights group in Saudi Arabia asserts that the case exemplifies why Saudi women and their daughters are afraid to go out on the streets, reports CNN's Nic Robertson, "because they could get involved in something not of their own making and the verdict could come down against them."







