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She didn’t get the punishment for being with a male who was not her husband, she got it for going WITHOUT a male companion.
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She was with a male companion, who was not her “guardian.”
In March 2006, the woman, then 18 and engaged to be married, and an unrelated man were abducted from a mall in Qatif, Saudi Arabia and raped by a group of seven men.
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The man and woman were attacked after they met in Qatif on the kingdom’s Persian Gulf coast, so she could retrieve an old photograph of herself from him, according to al-Lahim.
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“Even when he pronounced the sentence he said to her, ‘You were involved in a suspicious relationship and you deserve 200 lashes for that’,” he said.
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It is illegal for a woman to meet with an unrelated male under Saudi’s Islamic law.