Truth is stranger than fiction.
This is just unreal. A 20-year-old Saudi women and a male companion are repeatedly gang raped by seven men over the course of several hours and she is given 90 lashes because she shouldn't have been outside with a male not a relative in the first place. When her attorney appealed, the sentence was increased to 200 lashes and six months in jail. The rapists were sentenced to five to seven years in jail.
But it gets better.
A Saudi judge, Ibrahim bin Salih Al-Khudairi of the Riyadh Appeals Court, said in an interview published in Okaz newspaper on Nov. 27 that if he were a judge in the Qatif court that he would have sentenced her, her male companion and the seven rapists to death and that they should be lucky that they did not get the death penalty.
And how about this?
The Qatif girl said that she was photographed during the rape by one of the men using his cell phone camera. The photos were later entered as evidence in the trial, but the judges refused to consider them.
I'm speechless, but there is one bright spot in the story:
The husband of Qatif girl, who also refuses to be identified publicly, found out about his wife's rape only four months after it happened when the rapists were bragging about it in Qatif. He has not divorced her, which he could under Saudi law, instead choosing to help her fight her case in Saudi courts.