Research lands man and woman in Saudi jail
7/7/08
A Saudi appeals court is due this week to review the case of a biochemist and his female student sentenced to jail and flogging after a lower court ruled their research contact was a front for a telephone affair. The man was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 600 lashes and his student to 4 months in prison and 350 lashes last November for establishing a phone relationship that led her to divorce her husband. London-based Amnesty International says it will consider the two as prisoners of conscience if the verdicts are carried out. “The charges … do not correspond to recognisable criminal offences,” the group said in a statement in April.
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Tags: Human Rights, Saudi Arabia