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JEDDAH, 18 November 2003 - A Jizan court has sentenced a young woman to 500 lashes for allegedly spending time alone with a young man and marrying him hours after divorcing her former husband, Al-Madinah reported on Sunday.
According to the court ruling, the groom will also get 500 lashes while the mazoun who married them will get 30 lashes for violating Shariah rules.
The woman was on bad terms with her former husband and entered into a romantic relationship with the young man. But under Shariah, she was required to wait for three months before marrying another man, the paper said.
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JEDDAH, 4 October 2003 - A 20-year-old Saudi faces death for raping and killing a boy with the help of his 16-year-old cousin, Okaz reported yesterday.
"The young man raped the boy twice before strangling him, hitting his head with a rock and pushing him off a cliff," the paper said.
A Shariah court in Jeddah sentenced the man to death and gave his cousin five years in jail and 400 lashes of the cane, the paper said. It identified the man as Ali, his cousin as Sultan and the child as Ibrahim.
Sultan told the Arabic daily that Ali asked Sultan to lure 12-year-old Ibrahim to Sultan's house so they could sodomize him while his family was away. "I asked Ibrahim to come and have lunch and play video games with me," he said.
Ali, who had been drinking, joined the two and began beating the boy. Both Ali and Sultan then sexually assaulted the boy.
"When I had a feeling that my family were about to come back, I asked Ali and Ibrahim to leave. I quickly tidied up the room so my family wouldn't suspect anything," Sultan said.
He said Ali then took Ibrahim away. "In the evening I went out looking for them. I found Ali on a nearby hill and the body of Ibrahim lay dead in the valley in his bloodstained clothes." Ali and Sultan then fled the village.
During his trial, Ali acknowledged his guilt but said he acted "under the influence of liquor."
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Staff Writer
YANBU, 30 September 2003 - A court has sentenced two men to three years in jail and 3,000 lashes for attacking members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
The two men were arrested after they and 11 others attacked members of the commission in order to rescue two girls and two men from their custody. One of the girls escaped.
After their arrest the two men alleged members of the commission had been beating and pulling the hair of one of the girls they had earlier arrested on the beach on suspicion of not being related to the men in their company.
The commission denies any wrongdoing.
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By Shireena Al Nowais
Staff Reporter
A 15-year-old expatriate girl living in Abu Dhabi will be flogged 90 times before being deported from the UAE for committing adultery.
The sentence was handed down by the Abu Dhabi Criminal Court and supported by the Supreme Federal Court. The girl was charged by the criminal court with committing adultery at the age of 15.
The Prosecution claimed the girl was involved in an illicit relationship with a man and said she should be punished according to the Shariah Law. The court also sentenced the man involved with her.
The girl went to the Appeal Court which reconfirmed her sentence. She also appealed before the Supreme Federal Court on the grounds it was against the law to convict her since she is a teenager.
She said she was well below the legal permissible age of 18 when she committed the crime, implying the court should consider her case as a juvenile.
Her appeal was turned down by the federal court which supported the sentence and said the Shariah courts are solely responsible for applying Shariah laws for punitive crimes, blood money, drugs, juvenile delinquencies and others.
The court said according to the Shariah law, in contrast to the Civil Law, the girl has already reached adulthood by reaching puberty as confirmed by a medical doctor at Corniche Hospital.
Therefore she should be punished for adultery under the Shariah law which views that the girl deserves the punishment and should not be regarded a juvenile.
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By A Staff Reporter
In Ras Al Khaimah
Two people were yesterday sentenced to two-year jail terms each, ordered to be lashed 80 times and are to be deported after serving their term for committing adultery at a massage parlour.
The Public Prosecution interrogated the Arab client and his Chinese partner, and both admitted to the charges. However, they retracted their statement later.
An undercover agent grew suspicious after observing the man's behaviour in the parlour. Police raided the premises and arrested the two. They also detained the staff and two UAE national clients.
The parlour was shut till the court passed a verdict. The two nationals and staff were later released.
The court learnt that the Chinese woman was on a tourist visa and had renewed it six times. She would travel to Kish and return.
The court said the parlour should be permanently closed and the staff deported immediately. It also ordered the Public Prosecution to relay the order to the municipality which will cancel the parlour's commercial licence. The official said these massage parlours are spreading and will be monitored closely.
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GUAMANLOMA (Ecuador): Two women were publicly stripped, beaten and whipped with nettles by Indian villagers in a form of vigilante justice allowed under Ecuadorean law. The women, who villagers say tried to swindle them, remained behind bars on Friday.
Maria Elena Guanga, 37, and Paola Tuz, 27, were grabbed by villagers in this small mountain town, some 110km south of Quito, shortly after they began trying to pass off fake winning lottery tickets in exchange for money and household appliances on Wednesday.
The villagers forced them to strip down to their underwear before whipping them with nettles, dousing them with cold water and locking them into a small room overnight.
At noon on Thursday, the two were "tried'' in a school courtyard before some 2,000 Indians from nearby communities.
The women - both from Quito - wept as they begged for forgiveness and acknowledged that they had tried to deceive the villagers.
The two, still in their underwear, were then forced to march through the village in front of the assembled Indians who insulted and humiliated them.
Two Indians, dressed in ponchos and wide-brimmed felt hats, covered the women's faces with scarves before dousing them with gasoline and threatening to set them on fire. The women were whipped again with nettles and forced to roll around on a pile of the prickly bushes.
Ecuador's judicial system allows indigenous communities that are not served by police forces to apply vigilante justice as a form of "traditional law.'' Public humiliation and beatings are a common, old form of punishment in isolated Andean villages. - AP
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By Tahseen Shaghouri
in Fujairah
Seven people have been sentenced to various jail terms in separate cases. Rikha Akhtar Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Rahimuddeen, both Bangladeshis, were sentenced to 15 months and are to be lashed 95 times for committing adultery.
Rahimuddeen was also sentenced to another month and fined Dh200 for assaulting his partner.
A Sri Lankan couple, Powaya Ditakumar and Ritna Wali Kuditar, were also convicted of adultery. Ditakumar was sentenced to 11 months and is to be lashed 95 times.
He was also given an additional month and fined Dh300 for hitting his partner. Kuditar was sentenced to 15 months and is to be lashed 95 times.
She was fined Dh300 for working for someone other than her sponsor. She was also asked to pay Dh200 fine for overstaying after her residence visa expired. Both will be deported after serving their terms.
In another case, the Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced Abulana Jidara Malini, a Sri Lankan woman, to six months for stealing a gold necklace from her sponsor's wife.
In the fourth case, H.N.A., a person who does not have documents to prove his nationality, was sentenced to four years for taking drugs and is to be lashed 80 times for drinking alcohol.
He was acquitted of possessing drugs for trade. In another case, Jihanjeer Khan, a Pakistani, was sentenced to six months for sexually assaulting a boy.
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AN Ulster mayor today called for the birch to be brought back after four youths set an aisle of toilet rolls on fire in a local supermarket.
Antrim Mayor Mervyn Rea spoke out after the incident in the local Tesco store.
Fortunately, quick action of staff and the emergency services averted near disaster and prevented the fire from spreading too far.
Police admitted the consequences could have been serious, and they praised staff and emergency services for averting near tragedy.
Mr Rea suggested that corporal punishment should be brought back as a deterrent to young hooligans.
"This incident is absolutely deplorable and shows that these vandals were just out for wanton destruction with no care for other people or property," he said.
"The sooner we take stricter action, the better, as society is taking a turn for the worse.
"I believe that there is nothing wrong with the old way of doing things and corporal punishment would be a good deterrent.
"I hope that these youths are caught and dealt with through the courts and, perhaps more importantly, dealt with by their parents.
"We can only be thankful that the incident was no worse than it was and I appreciate the quick action of the staff and fire service in preventing something much more serious."
Jail term on Iranian scribe flayed
From Paul Michaud
(Special to Khaleej Times)
PARIS - Reporters Sans Frontières, the Paris-based international journalists' rights organisation, says that an Iranian journalist has been sentenced to four years in jail and 253 lashes.
RSF says that it "strongly deplores the new attacks on journalists by the Iranian authorities.
"These new moves by the hardliners cannot be tolerated," says RSF Secretary-General, Robert Menard.
Alireza Jabari, a translator and freelance contributor to several independent newspapers, including Adineh, was sentenced on April 19 to four years in prison, 253 lashes and a fine of six million rials (1,000 euros) for 'consuming and distributing alcoholic drinks' and for 'adultery and incitement to immoral acts'.
Jabari's lawyer said he was arrested illegally and that he himself had not been allowed to attend Jabari's trial. He was arrested at his office in Teheran last December 28 and freed on February 6 this year. He was arrested again on March 17.
An interview with him had appeared on December 25 in a Persian-language newspaper in Canada, Charvand, in which he said the country's hardline spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wanted the crisis in Iran to get worse.
His latest arrest came soon after he told the Press about his conditions of detention and the pressure exerted on him to make confessions.
Journalists Hossein Ghazian (arrested last October) and Abbas Abdi (arrested in November) are being tried in secret and without their lawyers present for "possessing secret documents belong to the intelligence ministry."
Early this month they were each sentenced on appeal to four years and six months in prison - four years for "passing information to enemy countries," and six months for "making propaganda against the Islamic regime."
Ghazian, a director of the Ayandeh public opinion firm and a journalist on the daily paper Nowrooz, and Abdi, another Ayandeh director, ex-editor of the daily Salam who has worked on many reformist papers, were accused of "receiving money from the US polling firm Gallup or from a foreign embassy."
They were arrested after the official news agency Irna, published last September 22 an Ayandeh poll that showed 74.4 per cent of Iranians favoured a resumption of ties with the United States.
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Poll backs floggings
THE majority of Irish people want public floggings to curb soaring crime figures, a survey has shown.
Almost 86 per cent of the 1,000 people in Dublin who responded to the phone study by FM104 on Thursday night said they wanted corporal punishment introduced.
The poll reflects growing anger at the rise in serious crime, such as sex assaults and car thefts.
FM104 presenter Adrian Kennedy said: "Our research may have been hypothetical but the results are stark and conclusive."
Garda figures published this week revealed serious crime rose by 22 per cent.
Wife Burning
Staff Writer
RIYADH, 17 March 2003 - A Saudi has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and 6,300 lashes after being convicted of pouring hot water on his wife and burning her body with hot metal objects, Al-Madinah newspaper reported yesterday. The court in Al-Baha heard that the accused poured hot water on his wife's head and burned her hair and several parts of her body with hot metal objects. The woman suffered serious injuries from the abuse, which took place during Ramadan. Al-Madinah quoted Judge Muhammad Al-Dhaferi as saying the man will receive some of the lashes in public.
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A peek inside prison
By Achong Tanjong
Although their movements are confined by the walls, its is not the end of the world for the prison inmates as they also have similar freedom like the ordinary citizen of the country.
FREE LIFESTYLE ... staff giving a
stark caning demonstration but Maraburong Prison is more than punishment -
convicts keep abreast of changes in the outside world through academic and
skills training, so as to compete with society and be self-reliant once they
regain their freedom. Pix: A. Tanjong
Chief Warden of Maraburong Prison,
Supt Haji Mohamed, guided the tour by Acting Temburong D.O. Haji Md. Yussop,
along with penghulu, village heads and longhouse headmen from Temburong District
yesterday.
Many programmes are organized for them with the sole objective of reform and turning them into loyal and law-abiding as well as socially productive, citizens.
According to Chief Warden of the Maraburong Prison, Superintendent Haji Mohamed bin Haji Damit at a briefing during a group visit by Acting Temburong District Officer Haji Md. Yussop bin Bakar with penghulu, village heads and longhouse headmen in tow from the Temburong District yesterday morning.
Functioning as the 'eyes and ears' of a community, the penghulus, village heads and longhouse headmen were given priority to visit and have a closer look at what the government agencies are doing for prisoners, who check in wayward members of society.
They toured the two prisons in Jerudong and Maraburong, accompanied by Director of Prison Tuan Haji Ahmad Haji Dullah. Also with the group was Assistant D.O. Awg. Ramlee Hj. Jamudin and senior staff of Temburong District office. At the end of their visit, they were treated to a lunch.
Haji Mohamed said that since the new prison started its operations on August 1, 2001, many rehabilitation programmes such as psychological rehabilitation, counselling, civic rehabilitation and vocational training, have been held. On top of that, inmates are also given spiritual and physical education. The prison has permanent religious teachers.
He said Maraburong Prison, which can accommodate 150 inmates, now has 157 inmates comprising 125 locals and 32 foreigners. The prison is mainly for first-time offenders. Second and repeat offenders are placed in Jerudong Prison. He said the new prison is located within the Bukit Panggal area, built on 81 hectares at a cost of B$18.8 million. It is one the modern building prisons in the country, which is equipped with sophisticated facilities in terms of security systems.
There are classes, surau, workshops (handicraft), with facilities like dinning hall, kitchen, mini library and volleyball and sepak-takraw courts.
Most of the products produced by the inmates are sold via exhibition and charity bazaars to raise aid for the less fortunate like the Afghan refugees. The public interested in their products can also make a booking through the prison authority.
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Iranian youth flogged for drinking alcohol
Eleven Iranian youths, including high school students, were flogged in the Robat-Karim suburb of southwestern Tehran for drinking alcohol, Seday-e-Edalat paper reported.
In its Saturday edition, the paper said the youth received 100 lashes each, including 80 for consuming alcohol and 20 for hollering while they were under the influence of the alcohol. (Albawaba.com)
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Prince Abba Bashir, 20, of Dutse, Jigawa State has been caned for the second time in Dutse for drunkenness.
Bashir was on December 11, 2002 caned for drunkenness by the same court.
The prince was arrested on January 17 by a team of Sharia monitoring police called Hisba in a state of intoxication in Dutse metropolis.
The Dutse Sharia Court on Monday ordered that he be caned for being drunk.
He was dragged before the court by the police for contravening section 151 of the Sharia act, a charge he readily admitted.
The Sharia Judge, Malam Isa Gantsa, who convicted the prince, said the court would not compromise in upholding justice and the rule of law.
He, therefore, ordered that Bashir be given 80 strokes of the cane and warned him to desist from such immoral act.
The caning of the prince, who is a son to a senior councillor in Dutse Emirate Council, attracted a large crowd.
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Nine get jail sentences
By A Staff Reporter
in Fujairah
Nine people were sentenced to various jail terms in separate cases. A UAE national was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for possessing drugs and fined Dh50,000 on the same charge. He was also sentenced to another four years for trading in drugs.
Police were tipped off that he was trading in drugs and sent an undercover agent to trap him. Police swooped on him when he was selling hashish to the agent.
In another case, an Indonesian woman and four Bangladeshis were charged with adultery and running a brothel.
The woman was sentenced to three years imprisonment for adultery. Two of the other accused were sentenced to 11 months in jail and to be lashed 95 times. Another was sentenced to three years in jail. One accused was acquitted, but all will be deported after serving their sentences.
In the third case, a Sri Lankan woman was sentenced to three months imprisonment for stealing money and jewellery from her sponsor's house.
In the fourth case, two nationals were sentenced to one year in jail and to be lashed 80 times for attempting to kill a Bangladeshi youngster.
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Court in Iran sentences prostitution ring members to over 4,000 lashes
An Iranian court has sentenced 90 members of a prostitution ring controlling 24 brothels to a total of 4,710 lashes and prison terms, according to Entekhab newspaper.
The paper, in its Saturday edition, said the ring was exposed four months ago following the arrest of a 21-year-old woman in Yaftabad, a southwestern district of Tehran.
Another prostitute working for the network, identified as Ronak, was quoted as saying that in four years of work she had "earned enough to buy a Peugeot 206".
Aside from lashes, the paper added that some of the gang members were also given jail terms of up to four years. (Albawaba.com)
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