smokebelch

Well, I suppose this is good news. Turns out a young woman won’t be getting 200 lashes for having the nerve to be gang-raped after all.

But [and isn't there ALWAYS a 'but' with these things] why can King Abdullah not just accept that the original verdict is wrong? Why does it have to be dressed up in caring about the ‘psychological effects’? Still, suppose it makes no difference to her.

 [UPDATE: It gets worse. Kudos to the New York Times for pushing the issue. Turns out she’s had death threats. But they’ll let her live in a safehouse if she wants (though I imagine this is less like a feminist commune run by north London liberals and more like a, well, er ‘prison’). Instead of, you know, actually PROSECUTING the people who threaten her. Merry Christmas to our fascist friends in the Middle East.