Saudis Changing Story about Lashing Sentence

By: PM
Published On: 11/25/2007 1:34:45 PM

Lowell covered this story last week:  http://www.raisingka...  At that point, it was said the woman's sentence (to 200 lashes) was being increased because she riled up the media.  Now, a different tune emerges: they say she was having an illicit affair.

After the incident, the woman and the man did not come forward about the assaults or press charges until someone contacted the woman's husband "telling him what happened, and about his wife's affair and adultery," the ministry said. "She then confessed ... the husband therefore came forward to the police and formally complained nearly three months after the incident."

But here's what the husband says:

The woman's husband told CNN earlier this week that "from the onset, my wife was dealt with as a guilty person who committed a crime. She was not given any chance to prove her innocence or describe how she was a victim of multiple brutal rapes."*** The woman's husband did not find out about the crime until his friends told him the rapists were bragging about it in the Qatif community, The Arab News reported in its Sunday editions, citing a source close to the case.

Earlier this week, the woman's husband blamed his wife's treatment on a judge with a personal vendetta.

That does not seem consistent, does it?

Anyone hear anything in the way of a protest from the Bush Administration?


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