This seems to be all over the news, but WTF???? the victim in this case is punished.  For me, this is just morally and humanly wrong!!!  let's hear some of your opinions?Only in Saudi Arabia: gang rape victim punished 19-year-old woman gets 200 lashes, six months in jail for being in car of unrelated male at time of rape. RIYADH - A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms -was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape," the Arab News reported. But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.                                                                                                                                             A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media." Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public. Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community. But the woman's lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.                                                                                                                                           In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison. The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state. Lahem, also a human rights activist, said on Wednesday that the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December. Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and "contradicts King Abdullah's quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system."                                                                                                                                                 King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.

What about the guy? Nothing at all?

Thats why in foreign countries some of the islamic people think that a woman wearing a bikini is a piece of meat and they feel they can do what they wish with a piece of meat.

Do you know that in Thailand, if a man is convicted of raping a woman he can avoid going to jail if he offers to marry the woman. I believe she must accept the offer for him to avoid jail.

Can you imagine that? What woman would want to marry a man who raped her? But that's the law here. Its not quite Saudi Arabia, but I wouldn't call it modern, humane or just.

There is also a case making a lot of news here about a woman who worked in a karaoke bar just north of Bangkok. one evening, a policeman requested she join him at her table. She didn't want to. When she declined the offer, the cop and two of his buddies held her down and hacked off her right arm from the shoulder down. That will teach her about a woman's place in this society.

After an eight month investigation the policeman has been fired from the police force. But neither he nor his buddies are in jail. And how much you want to bet they never will be.

Meanwhile the police department has bought this woman, who now sells flower garlands on the street, a brand new plastic prosthetic arm with a mechanical claw at the end. (for the grand total of 57,000 baht) And three times this week I've seen press conference photos with the broadly smiling police department spokesperson beaming iin self congratulation at this very generous gift of a plastic arm and metal claw while this once very beautiful young woman just stares at in sullen resignation.