Female Saudi Journalist Sentenced to 60 Lashes

Religious sexual repression is always ugly but this is particularly disgusting:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.

Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.

That's right, all she did was help to prepare a program in which someone else talked about sex (those guys were also convicted of discussing sex publicly and sentenced to two years imprisonment and 300 lashes each). I have a hard time believing that we'd put up with this kind of ignorant bullshit if these people didn't live on a massive oil reserve.

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