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Saudi Women in Prison

Reason Staff | 6.14.2007 3:13 AM

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A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a 20-year-old woman to six months in a foster home for girls and 60 lashes for running away from home. The woman was not named by the media. Under Saudi law, women must be accompanied by their husbands or a male relative.

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