Saudi schoolgirl faces lashes
Posted by Ashbee | Date: 21 Jan | Topic: Current news
From Reuters yesterday:
A Saudi court sentenced a teenage girl to 90 lashes and two months in jail after she thumped her school principal on the head with a cup, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
The incident happened last year in the eastern city of Jubail after the headmistress confiscated the girl’s mobile phone because it had a camera which is banned in Saudi schools, Al-Watan newspaper said.
The principal asked the court to order the flogging to be carried out inside the school “to educate” the pupil, the newspaper said.
The newspaper did not give the age of the girl.
