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Dec 17, 2007 21:50

First some great news from the AP: Saudi king pardons rape victim: Abdullah reportedly spares woman in sex-assault case from jail and lashes. (But what about the man, who was also raped, and whose sentence was also increased? The article doesn't tell us.)

Still a long way to go for Saudi Arabia, with alleged rape victims denied forensic exams and ( Read more... )

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fried_flamingo December 17 2007, 11:38:37 UTC
Right, well admittedly the timing on this is a bit weird, but here we are: Huge rise in Scots with racist prejudices (and they were surveyed before the nightmare at Glasgow Aiport

I'm rather alarmed that the views of 1500 people are being used as a yardstick for a country with a population of 6 million, but then again I think the nature of all surveys are representative of the people interviewed rather than the socio-demographic group they're supposed to represent.

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