Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Our friends - the Saudis

The Guardian reported on Saturday that “[d]ozens of Saudi men caught dancing and ‘behaving like women’ at a party have been sentenced to a total of 14,200 lashes, after a trial held behind closed doors and without defence lawyers.”

The very next day, in the UK Independent, we learned that the Saudi government had executed six men “without sentence,” bringing “the total [number of executions] so far this year to 40, more than the country’s 33 executions in the whole of 2004.”
  Think Progress article
Executions in Saudi Arabia generally consist of public beheadings.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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