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Is this too cruel for you?
DUBAI (Reuters) - Amnesty International has condemned a reported Saudi Arabian court ruling that a young man should be paralyzed as punishment for a crime he committed 10 years ago which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.
The London-based human rights group said Ali al-Khawaher, 24, was reported to have spent 10 years in jail waiting to be paralyzed surgically unless his family pays one million Saudi riyals ($270,000) to the victim.
The Saudi Gazette newspaper reported last week that Khawaher had stabbed a childhood friend in the spine during a dispute a decade ago, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Saudi Arabia applies Islamic sharia law, which allows eye-for-an-eye punishment for crimes but allows victims to pardon convicts in exchange for so-called blood money.
9 Answers
- Andy FLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Hmm, there's a certain poetic justice to this sentence.
I'd consider it cruel & kind of barbaric, but it does have a certain logic to it.
A big caveat, of course, is how much money does the young man's family have?
If they pay $270,000 to the victim to compensate him monetarily for his loss, maybe Khawaher doesn't need to be paralyzed after all.
- Mike KLv 78 years ago
Hello,
Then if Amnesty International is so concerned about this outsanding type of situation then why the hell don't they pay the blood money? Its a trivial amount for such an organization in the scheme of things.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
- 8 years ago
If that were the case in America there would be a lot of one-handed black Americans running around.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
Give me a while to research recidivism of criminals in Saudi Arabia and I'll try to answer your question.
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- NickLv 78 years ago
He probably deserves it. I wish we had punishments like this in the UK. Steal from me and you lose your hand. Rape my daughter and you get castrated. Kill someone and you will be hanged.
- Anonymous8 years ago
it is their country not ours
I hope this was of use
