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Our great friends the Saudis have a way of setting the highest standards in cruelty. In the city of Jeddah, an unmarried woman of 23 was abducted and gang-raped. Finding that she was then pregnant, she desperately tried to have an abortion. Brought to court, she explained what had happened, whereupon the judge ruled that she had committed adultery. Result: a sentence of one year in prison, and a hundred lashes once she has had the child. Meanwhile, over in another town, al-Chamli, two men called on a 75-year-old grandmother by the name of Khamisa Sawadi. One had once been breast-fed by this lady, and the other ...