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RIYADH - The Saudi Justice Ministry announced that a girl gang raped by seven men and then sentenced to six month's prison and 200 lashes for adultery had confessed to cheating on her husband.
The statement confirmed the flogging sentence against the rape victim would be carried out and condemned foreign interference.
In 2006 a Shiite Saudi 19-year-old said she had met a high school friend to retrieve a picture. While in a car with him, two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area where others waited, and then she and her companion were raped.
She was sentenced to prison and 90 lashes for being alone with a man not related to her. When her lawyer, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, appealed the sentence, the penalty doubled to 200.
- AP
