Sudan Won Who Gang-Raped Jailed For "indecnet Acts"

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26286264

If there is anybody left who thinks that Sharia law is in any way just, perhaps this might just convince otherwise. Jailed for being raped !

[Gromit]

You label somewhere you have never been and know very little about, a 'Backwards country'. Then in another statement you lump other countries into that category, including Turkey. You may be right about Sudan, I have no experience of the place, but you are very wrong about Turkey. I have been there extensively and know it as a very progressive place. Education, womens rights and the law are very comparable to here.

[naomi24]

Gromit, read Emmie's post again. I don’t think she is saying that Turkey is a backwards country. Quite the opposite. Sudan is a backwards country.

divebuddy, //we are invited to sympathise with some poor women " jailed for being raped" but it turns out that she wasn't.//

Whether or not she is married, divorced, single, and whether or not she was raped, in the eyes of the law she is in jail for having sex - and that penalty you appear to support. The mind boggles.

[Gromit]

Thanks Noami, she says they are going backwards.

Khaled Hosseini's 'A thousand Splendid Suns' is a wonderful novel but it is a work of fiction. It is not an history book. Like saying learn the 19th century history of England, read Charles Dickens.

[Gromit]

Naomi24
Apologies for spelling your name wrong.

// she is in jail for having sex //

She was convicted and sentenced to one year but that is suspended because she is pregnant.

[naomi24]

Gromit, I didn’t read Emmie’s post that way.

Yes, the sentence is suspended. Sorry, I should have said she will be jailed for having sex.

[emmie]

i did say if you read it Gromit, that many of these countries are going backwards, and for your info i have been there, Turkey, and across part of Africa,

[emmie]

who could comment more on Afghanistan and it's people than someone born and raised there. And indeed this applies to any place. I can comment on the capital having been born and raised here, and know a fair bit of it's history. In the various links i had looked at it said she was still in jail.
for the crime of being an illegal

[emmie]

like this one you mean,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10409378/Nigerian-illegal-immigrant-twice-spared-from-deportation-jailed-for-rape.html

[emmie]

this would be an awful lot to put in jail, don't you think

wiki
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[brionon]

Google Franca Viola to read of a European Heroin who went through this .

[emmie]

i hope you mean heroine....

[emmie]

wiki

Franca Viola (born in Alcamo in 1947) is a Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a "rehabilitating marriage" ("matrimonio riparatore" in Italian) after suffering kidnapping and rape. Instead, she and her family successfully appealed to the law to prosecute the rapists. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's behavior clashed with the traditional social conventions, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she did not marry the man she lost her virginity to. Franca Viola thus became a symbol of the cultural progress and the emancipation of women in post-war Italy.wiki