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Wednesday, August 20, 2003

MORAL HIGH GROUND

15yo girl to receive 90 lashes for adultery

The decision of the Supreme Federal Court in the United Arab Emirates to reject an appeal presented by a 15-year-old girl sentenced to 90 lashes for committing adultery, arose wide disdain among ‘foreign residents’. The sad news, reported by the ‘Gulf News Daily’ paper, is however surrounded by mystery, given that neither the girl’s name nor nationality are known, though the paper refers that she is a foreigner and once her sentence is carried out she will be expelled. While in regard to the man, with whom she allegedly engaged in an “illicit relation”, the paper mentioned a sentence issued also against him, without however providing details.

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