Clinton: Saudi verdict an outrage

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/21/saudi.rape.victim/index.html

(CNN) -- U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined international condemnation of the sentence handed out to a Saudi rape victim: 200 lashes and six months in prison.

Labeling it "an outrage", Sen. Clinton urged the U.S. government to protest the decision.
"The Bush administration has refused to condemn the sentence and said it will not protest an internal Saudi decision," the Democratic presidential frontrunner said in a statement.
"I urge President Bush to call on King Abdullah to cancel the ruling and drop all charges against this woman."
The sentence resulted from an incident in March 2006, when the woman, then aged 18 and engaged to be married, and an unrelated man, were abducted from a mall in Qatif, Saudi Arabia by a group of seven men. She was later raped.
In October, the men were convicted and sentenced to between two and nine years in prison for the assault. She was convicted of violating the kingdom's strict Islamic law by not having a male guardian with her at the mall.