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at least S.A. didn't send any terrorists to blow up... wait a second!!!
JIDDA: A Saudi court has more than doubled the number of lashes that a female rape victim was sentenced to last year after her lawyer appealed the original sentence.
The decision this week, which many lawyers found shocking even by Saudi standards of justice, has provoked a rare public debate about the treatment of women here.
The victim's lawyer, Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem, a well-known human rights activist, drew the court's ire because of his strong public criticism of the handling of the case. He has called his client's conviction unjust and said the sentences of the seven men who raped her were too lenient.
He is also known for his past defense of critics of the monarchy.
The victim's name has not been released. She was raped about 18 months ago in Qatif, a city in the Eastern Province, and has become known in the Saudi media as "the Qatif girl." She was 19 years old at the time of the assault.
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