Psikologi Transformatif: [psikologi_transformatif] Re: Masya'allah - korban pemerkosaan dihukum cambuk 200 kali

Kamis, 22 November 2007

[psikologi_transformatif] Re: Masya'allah - korban pemerkosaan dihukum cambuk 200 kali

Wah, berita baik buat Hendrik. Dia pasti bangga bacanya. Ha ha ha...ha ha
ha...ha ha ha...ha ha ha ....

Inikah yang diajarkan Tuhanmu, Ndrik?

manneke

Quoting Hudoyo Hupudio <hudoyo@cbn.net.id>:

> Kementerian Kehakiman Saudi Arabia membela putusan hakim yang menghukum
> seorang perempuan berusia 19 tahun korban sebuah pemerkosaan beramai-ramai
> dengan 6 bulan penjara dan 200 cambukan. "Kejahatan" si korban adalah "berada
> bersama seorang laki-laki yang bukan muhrimnya" di sebuah mobil ketika mereka
> diserang oleh 7 orang yang kemudian memperkosanya beramai-ramai.
>
> Pada mulanya perempuan itu dihukum 90 cambukan, tapi hukuman itu diperberat
> karena perempuan itu mengadu kepada media massa.
>
> Sistem hukum di Saudi Arabia memberikan peluang kepada hakim untuk memutuskan
> perkara menurut kehendaknya sendiri. Dasarnya sih hukum syariat, tapi
> ditafsirkan seenaknya. Bukti-bukti bisa kabur, dan kadang-kadang tidak ada
> pembela. Untuk kejahatan yang sama, hakim bisa menetapkan hukuman yang amat
> bervariasi. Seorang pemerkosa, misalnya, bisa dihukum ringan--dengan alasan
> si korbanlah yang menggodanya--sampai dihukum mati.
>
> Human Rights Watch di New York mengatakan, "keputusan itu mengirimkan pesan
> kepada para korban pemerkosaan bahwa sebaiknya mereka tidak mengadu kepada
> polisi atas perlakuan yang dialaminya, dan di lain pihak melindungi para
> pelaku perkosaan."
>
> Salam,
> Hudoyo
>
>
> Saudis defend punishment for rape victim
>
> Wed Nov 21, 9:19 AM ET - Associated Press
>
> The Saudi judiciary on Tuesday defended a court verdict that sentenced a
> 19-year-old victim of a gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes
> because she was with an unrelated male when they were attacked.
>
> The Shiite Muslim woman had initially been sentenced to 90 lashes after being
> convicted of violating Saudi Arabia's rigid Islamic law requiring segregation
> of the sexes.
>
> But in considering her appeal of the verdict, the Saudi General Court
> increased the punishment. It also roughly doubled prison sentences for the
> seven men convicted of raping the woman, Saudi news media said last week.
>
> The reports triggered an international outcry over the Saudis punishing the
> victim of a terrible crime.
>
> But the Ministry of Justice stood by the verdict Tuesday, saying that
> "charges were proven" against the woman for having been in a car with a man
> who was not her relative.
>
> The ministry implied the victim's sentence was increased because she spoke
> out to the press. "For whoever has an objection on verdicts issued, the
> system allows an appeal without resorting to the media," said the statement,
> which was carried on the official Saudi Press Agency.
>
> The attack occurred in 2006. The victim says she was in a car with a male
> student she used to know trying to retrieve a picture of her. She says two
> men got into the car and drove them to a secluded area where she was raped by
> seven men. Her friend also was assaulted.
>
> Justice in Saudi Arabia is administered by a system of religious courts
> according to the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic law.
>
> Judges have wide discretion in punishing criminals, rules of evidence are
> vague and sometimes no defense lawyer is present. The result, critics say,
> are sentences left to the whim of judges. A rapist, for instance, could
> receive anywhere from a light sentence to death.
>
> State Department spokesman Sean McCormack avoided directly criticizing the
> Saudi judiciary over the case, but said the verdict "causes a fair degree of
> surprise and astonishment."
>
> "It is within the power of the Saudi government to take a look at the verdict
> and change it," McCormack said.
>
> Canada's minister for women's issues, Jose Verger, has called the sentence
> "barbaric."
>
> The New York-based Human Rights Watch said the verdict "not only sends
> victims of sexual violence the message that they should not press charges,
> but in effect offers protection and impunity to the perpetrators."
>
>