13 year old girl to be lashed 90 times for bringing cell phone to school

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

A 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 90 lashes and two months' prison in Saudi Arabia after she took a mobile phone to school.

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The punishment is harsher than that dished out to some robbers and looters.

Saudi Arabia, a leading US ally in the Middle East, is an absolute monarchy controlled by the Al-Saud ruling tribe, and lacks any legal code.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...one-school.html

[Nagishkaw 510]

0h dear.

[Twisted K 2]

[Peikko 1,575]

Um, did anyone click the link - not that I condone corporal punishment and it's still completely inappropriate but the punishment was not for bringing a cell phone to school.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Um, did anyone click the link - not that I condone corporal punishment and it's still completely inappropriate but the punishment was not for bringing a cell phone to school.

Yes, it was. The cell phone was discovered while they were searching students due to an assault. There is nothing in the article indicating the girl is responsible for the assault.

[Peikko 1,575]

I didn't read it like that. I read it that she was involved in the assault as well. It's not very clear but that's the Daily Mail for you.

A court ordered the girl to be flogged in front of her classmates following an assault on the school principal, according to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan.

After the assault she was discovered to have concealed a mobile phone, breaking strict Saudi regulations banning the use of camera-equipped phones in girls' schools.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...l#ixzz0dAv2V0tY

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I read it like they searched all the students after an assault occurred.

[DEDixon 39]

i wonder why people are not leaving SA in mass? i mean, it seems like a harsh way to live, but they stay. i guess they just take it for what it is. do they stay for the state benefits, because with the state benefits, life is easy (with respect to food, shelter... basic survival is easy i guess)? i wonder.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

i guess she won't be a texting champion

[Peikko 1,575]

I wonder why they assaulted the principal in the first place? So many unanswered questions...

[nowhereman 1]

I wish all the douchebags driving slowly in the left lane while on a cell phone were given 90 lashes B)

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

I wish all the douchebags driving slowly in the left lane while on a cell phone were given 90 lashes B)

i agree

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Good thing she wasn't raped. They'd probably hang her.

[SMR 368]

We need more of this in America. Stupid uppity kids with their cell-phones.

I read the article to indicate that she was the perpetrator of the assault.

[Nagishkaw 510]

I wish all the douchebags driving slowly in the left lane while on a cell phone were given 90 lashes B)