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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/17/saudi.rape.victim/index.html
"(CNN) -- A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN."
Ths court decided to up the victim's punishment because her lawyer won an appeal saying the lawyer was trying to influence the judicial system - "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media".
Here is why the victim was punished - What sort of kangroo justice is this ?
"The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison."
Online attention might shame the law minister of Saudi Arabia from implementing the ruling.
And here is another such case of kangaroo justice from the putative land of the free - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/us/04felony.html?hp. Apparently, lending your car to a roommate with the knowledge that he might commit a burglary which then results in murder makes you liable for the murder. Kangaroo justice indeed !!
"(CNN) -- A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN."
Ths court decided to up the victim's punishment because her lawyer won an appeal saying the lawyer was trying to influence the judicial system - "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media".
Here is why the victim was punished - What sort of kangroo justice is this ?
"The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison."
Online attention might shame the law minister of Saudi Arabia from implementing the ruling.
And here is another such case of kangaroo justice from the putative land of the free - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/us/04felony.html?hp. Apparently, lending your car to a roommate with the knowledge that he might commit a burglary which then results in murder makes you liable for the murder. Kangaroo justice indeed !!