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The girls received 10 lashes each under the country’s strict interpretation of Islamic law at a women’s prison in Medina, Islam’s second holiest city, in the west of the desert state.
“The order against the six orphans is a legitimate court order,” Mohammed al-Awadh, the public relations manager at the Ministry of Social Affairs, told Reuters. “The ministry does not have the right to interfere in a court order.”
He gave no details of the ruling but the Arabic-language newspaper Okaz said the girls had been convicted of “acts of mischief” and attacking the director of the orphanage. The girls defended their actions, saying they were harassed by the director, Okaz reported. International human rights groups have criticised the Saudi justice system for applying corporal punishment for petty crimes, as well as limb amputations for thieves and beheadings for murderers under its strict interpretation of Islamic law. – Reuters.
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