Apparently the Saudi Gazette publishes online. Good thing, too, because how else would you have learned about the businessman who violated all kinds of strictures by holding a mixed-gender party in his theme park. Yes, his theme park:
MAKKAH – The District Court here on Monday enhanced the sentence of a businessman who was found guilty of organizing a mixed-gender party in his theme park.
Giving his ruling on requests from other judges, Judge Muhammad Al-Fa’eem of the District Court increased the sentence to suit the guilt of violating the sanctity of the holy place.
The businessman was initially sentenced to four months imprisonment and 200 lashes after he was found guilty of organizing the party in his theme park despite restraining orders from the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
The judge increased the sentence from four months to six months in prison but allowed the 200 lashes sentence to remain without change.
Here’s another WTF — girl is sentenced to a year in prison for being gang-raped:
JEDDAH – A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus.
The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The man, the girl confessed, took her to a rest house, east of Jeddah, where he and four of friends assaulted her all night long.
The girl claimed that she became pregnant soon after and went to King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces in an attempt to carry out an abortion. She was eight weeks’ pregnant then, the hospital confirmed.
According to the ruling, the woman will be sent to a jail outside Jeddah to spend her time and will be lashed after delivery of her baby who will take the mother’s last name.
Not bizarre enough for you? Well, then, friend, check out the editorial cartoons! I like the subtlety here:
