Saudi Arabia
Khamisa Sawadi
Saudi Arabia: Court sentences 75-year-old woman to lashes
Saudi woman
By Diana Al-Jassim
Unnamed man
Riad, 30 July (AKI) - A Saudi court has sentenced a chemistry professor to 600 lashes and 8 months in jail for a 'telephone relationship' with a female student.
The student, whose marriage allegedly broke down as result of the relationship got 350 lashes and 4 months in prison.
The academic, who worked in a teaching hospital in the south of the country was convicted on the basis of the student's husband's testimony, according to Arabic satellite TV station Al-Arabiya.
Unnamed woman
March 2007
A 20 year old Saudi woman was sentenced to 60 lashes of the whip and 6 months imprisonment at a foster house for girls after running away from her home and appearing in public without a male guardian.
For more information, see
Unnamed woman (“The Girl from Qatif”)
Crime: Being alone with a man in a car