By Giulia Rozzi

A woman in Saudi Arabia accused seven men of rape and she is the one who is punished!?

The woman, known there only as “the Qatif girl, ” was initially subjected to 90 lashes for being alone with a man to whom she was not married.
Outraged, her human rights lawyer appealed the sentence which only doubled the woman’s sentence and stripped her lawyer of his license to practice.

Wait, a minute are we living in 2007? What? How? Why?! Not only has this woman been violated by these alleged rapists but she is being violated by her own country!

Now the case is being appealed to the Kingdom’s highest court and activists are demanding that the judiciary system be examined.

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