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2010-01-22 Arabia

Saudi schoolgirl gets 90 lashes for cell phone

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Some things just bring your day crashing down , this is one of them .

Posted by Oscar 2010-01-22 09:55|| 2010-01-22 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe the phrase used here is...

ROPMA

Posted by Beldar Threreling9726 2010-01-22 13:02|| 2010-01-22 13:02|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems the school principal caught the girl with the phone and confiscated it. The girl then bashed the principal on the head with a cup.

The punishment appears to be for the assault, not possession of the phone.

Still, unbelievable Saudi savagery

Posted by john frum 2010-01-22 17:16|| 2010-01-22 17:16|| Front Page Top

#4 JUBAIL A court in Jubail sentenced recently a schoolgirl to two months in prison and 90 lashes of the whip for assaulting a headmistress last year, Al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to the newspaper, the headmistress described the sentence as satisfactory, and that it was decided on her advice to carry it out at the school itself because the purpose of it is to serve as a lesson in behavior and not to sully the name of the pupil.
Al-Watan said that the incident, which occurred during the second semester of the last school year, was sparked when the school confiscated the girls camera-equipped mobile telephone which is forbidden on the premises by school rules.
The afternoon-class pupil was then warned over her actions and ordered to study for future classes from home, prompting her to turn up at the school the following morning and hit the headmistress on the head with a glass.
Al-Watan did not divulge the name of the school, but said that it was one of the Kingdoms intermediate schools which educate pupils between the ages of 14 and 16.

Schools are frightening
Responses to the story from the public on the newspapers website reflected a variety of concerns over the situation in the Kingdoms schools and court rulings.
The principal should have dealt with it herself and given her a lighter punishment if it was her first offence, said one of the total 60 comments, reflecting several saying that the principal should have handled the situation differently and internally.
Others saw the sentence as an all but due measure.
The girl had it coming to her, said one comment. Honestly, schools today are scary, and people are frightened to send their girls to school what with all the things we hear about happening in them.
Another comment questioned the consistency of court sentences. Im not defending the girl or her behavior, but the sentence was unfair and there are surely other options. I know someone who was caught with drugs and they only gave him two months prison and 30 lashes.
She deserved the strict punishment, said another, but it would be better if the laws were fixed so pupils know how to behave, education has become a joke.
Id like to defend the girl, the girl whos at intermediate school, in other words a young girl, said one. She might have gone to school all happy with her phone but its us whove made her want to take photos of stuff happening at school and put them on the Internet, and us whove made her a criminal, what say we execute her?! This is the sentence of the strong over the weak. On your conscience be it.
Others took a more balanced partisan view. One comment stated dryly: The headmistress deserved to be hit, and the girl deserved the sentence.

Posted by john frum 2010-01-22 19:16|| 2010-01-22 19:16|| Front Page Top

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