Saudi Arabia justice - business dispute results in 500 lashes and 5 years in prison

[Liberal_in_LA]

Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes

Human-rights activists are demanding the release of Nagla Wafa, an Egyptian wedding planner and designer sentenced to 500 lashes and five years in prison in Saudi Arabia following a business dispute with a princess.

Wafa ran afoul of a royal in the Saudi kingdom over the finances of a joint business venture, according to her family. She was reportedly accused of cashing a check from the princess but not following through on their deal to start a restaurant.

“As of May of 2012, Ms. Wafa has been subjected, on a weekly basis, to 50 floggings per week within the ‘Al-Malz’ Prison. She currently faces 200 more floggings ... despite her suffering from distortions to her spine,” the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said in an online statement.

Accusing Saudi Arabian authorities of unlawfully detaining the 39-year-old mother of teenage twins, the organization said the case was a “blatant violation” of human rights and filed a complaint with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/08/cairo-the-plight-of-nagla-wafa-an-egyptian-mother-sentenced-500-lashes-in-saudi-arabia-following-a-business-dispute-wit.html

[fascisthunter]

1. barbaric punishment

just make the man do time. Since it's Saudi Arabia, who knows what this woman really did. As if the 1% in Saudi Arabia were pure themselves....lol. How many laws do you think they have broken and how many times?

"You" as in READER, not the person posting this.

[Angry Dragon]

4. It is a woman

[fascisthunter]

8. edited!

thanks!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. it's a women. Business dispute with a Saudi Princess.

[fascisthunter]

9. thanks!!!

[orpupilofnature57]

2. These are the people we sell 75% of the 60 billion in

arms.No need for democracy in Bandar Bush country, I guess.

[Angry Dragon]

3. replied to wrong person

[lostnote12]

5. You will respect my authority!!!!!.....sick fu@#$%%!!!....probably the same whiney spoiled

...slut<cough> Princess that skipped out on the massive LA hotel tab .....No wonder the Bush family thinks that they are the greatest of friends....

[Kolesar]

7. The people who own 7% of the capital in the United States

according to Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11

[fascisthunter]

10. great point!