Forty lashes for a 75-year-old widow

Saudi court sentences 75-year-old woman to lashes
By MAGGIE MICHAEL,
CAIRO (AP) – The sentencing of a 75-year-old widow to 40 lashes and four months in prison for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia’s ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was [...]

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