Lashing for girl who hit teacher
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January 25, 2010, Monday
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A TEENAGE girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published yesterday.
The assault happened after the girl was caught with a camera phone at school.
The teenager's name was not immediately available.
The girl could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah, according to Judge Riyadh al-Meihdib.
"The verdict was read out to her at the court and she did not object," al-Meihdib told Al-Watan, a national Saudi daily newspaper.
He said the teacher refused to forgive the girl, who will not appeal the case.
The teacher's condition was unknown, and the newspaper had no details about the dispute.
Camera phones are banned at the school in the country.
The newspaper quoted the school headmaster as describing the girl as "about twenty" years old. However, Amnesty International said the girl is 13.
In a statement on Friday, the London-based agency urged King Abdullah to "intervene immediately to ensure that the flogging sentence is rescinded."
"He must also take steps to reform Saudi Arabian law and criminal procedure to ban the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, in particular floggings of children," Amnesty Interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone said.
Judge al-Meihdib told the newspaper that his court will issue instructions to local authorities in Jubail to carry out the sentence within two days.
The Jubail court sentenced the teenager last Tuesday.
The assault happened after the girl was caught with a camera phone at school.
The teenager's name was not immediately available.
The girl could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah, according to Judge Riyadh al-Meihdib.
"The verdict was read out to her at the court and she did not object," al-Meihdib told Al-Watan, a national Saudi daily newspaper.
He said the teacher refused to forgive the girl, who will not appeal the case.
The teacher's condition was unknown, and the newspaper had no details about the dispute.
Camera phones are banned at the school in the country.
The newspaper quoted the school headmaster as describing the girl as "about twenty" years old. However, Amnesty International said the girl is 13.
In a statement on Friday, the London-based agency urged King Abdullah to "intervene immediately to ensure that the flogging sentence is rescinded."
"He must also take steps to reform Saudi Arabian law and criminal procedure to ban the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, in particular floggings of children," Amnesty Interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone said.
Judge al-Meihdib told the newspaper that his court will issue instructions to local authorities in Jubail to carry out the sentence within two days.
The Jubail court sentenced the teenager last Tuesday.
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