60 lashes for Saudi woman over 'sex' talk
Last Updated: 5:00 PM, October 24, 2009
NYPOST
Posted: 1:25 PM, October 24, 2009

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court today sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes who had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.
Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment, but there were conflicting accounts about how the court issued its verdict.
Al-Yami told The Associated Press it was her understanding that the judge at the court in the western city of Jiddah dropped the charges against her, which included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.

But she said he still handed down the lashing sentence “as a deterrence.”

“I am too frustrated and upset to appeal the sentence,” said al-Yami, 22.
Al-Yami worked as a coordinator for the program, but she has said she did not work on the sex-show episode. Al-Yami refused to provide contact details for her lawyer to ask about the legal proceedings, including the basis in Islamic law for the punishment and whether the charges were really dropped. Sulaiman al-Jumeii, the lawyer for the man who appeared in the TV show, said such “physical punishment is not an indication of innocence or a drop of charges.”

“If the judge had dropped the charges, then why did he give her the 60 lashes?” he added.


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