The primitive Mohammedans in Saudi Arabia are at it again, issuing outlandish sentences for a perceived "telephone affair" between a
pair of researchers.
A Saudi appeals court is due this week to review the case of a biochemist and his female student sentenced to jail and flogging after a lower court ruled their research contact was a front for a telephone affair.
The man was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 600 lashes and his student to 4 months in prison and 350 lashes last November for establishing a phone relationship that led her to divorce her husband.
London-based Amnesty International says it will consider the two as prisoners of conscience if the verdicts are carried out.
"The charges ... do not correspond to recognizable criminal offences," the group said in a statement in April.
A spokesman for the government's Human Rights Commission said he was not immediately able to comment.
Howe funny is that? These savages have a
Human Right's Commission.
Rights groups and some Saudi reformers have criticized what they say is an arbitrary justice system unsuited to the needs of a country of 25 million people.
Judges who are religious scholars apply the rulings of an austere version of sharia, Islamic law, often termed Wahhabism.
The government, a key U.S. ally, says the system ensures justice for Muslims and non-Muslims. It is in the process of overhauling the organization of courts and codifying a formal penal code.
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