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  • State Dept won't condemn Saudi 200 lashes verdict against rape VICTIM

    09/23/2019 8:52:22 PM PDT · by Steely Tom · 8 replies
    CNN ^ | 19 November 2007 | (author not given)
    COSTELLO: To most Americans it's an outrage -- a rape victim violated by seven men -- not only blamed for her own attack, but sentenced to prison and 200 lashes. The 19-year-old victim, interviewed by the Human Rights Watch organization, said: "Everyone looks at me as if I was wrong. I wanted to die." In Saudi Arabia, woman cannot travel without permission from a male relative. And that night, the Saudi victim -- without permission -- met a male friend to retrieve some photographs. Both were abducted and raped. She says: "The first man with the knife raped me. I...