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Saudi Rape Victim27 Nov 2007
Sentenced to 200 lashes after being gang raped

A nineteen year old Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to two hundred lashes and six months in prison after being gang raped last year. Her crime – was to be travelling in a car with a man to whom she was not related, breaking the country’s tough laws on segregation of the sexes. There has been outrage across the world with American presidential candidates wading into challenge the current president over his record on tackling Saudi Arabia on human rights.

Jenni talks to Mai Yamani, Saudi political analyst and to Frank Gardiner, the BBC’s Security correspondent about the case and the reaction it has provoked on tomorrow’s programme


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