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Saudi rape victim 'pardoned from lashes'
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From News.com.au...
SAUDI Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a teenage girl sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes after being gang raped, Al Jazirah newspaper reported today.
The ruling against the 19-year-old girl in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom had attracted widespread international condemnation, including from human rights groups, the White House and NEWS.com.au readers.
The Arabic language daily said it had been informed of the royal pardon from its own unidentified sources.
But in the same article, the kingdom's Justice Minister Abdullah bin Mohammad bin Ibrahim al-Sheikh told the paper the King had the "right to overrule court judgements if he considered it benefiting the greater good."
The girl, who was 18 at the time she was raped, was attacked at knifepoint by seven men after she was found in a car with a male companion who was not a relative, in breach of strict Saudi law.
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