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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I am 100 percent against the decision of the Saudi courts, flogging in Saudi Arabia is not nearly as bad as you might think for a couple of reasons.

1) You are flogged with all your clothes on.  You could put any number of layers of foam under your shirt.

2) The flogger must hold a Quran under the arm he is flogging with.  This means the flogging is done using the arm from just the elbow down.  it is almost impossible to get leverage to deliver a whipping of any strength.

Flogging in Saudi Arabia really amounts to an exercise in public humiliation.

An American embassy counsel in Saudi Arabia I once knew told me that frequently those who are convicted of crimes in Saudi Arabia are given a choice between prison time or flogging, and he always recommended flogging to his American charges.  Saudi prisons are pretty bad.[/quote]

I'm really relieved to read this description. Thank you for posting. Had read that he'll be whipped something like 50 times each week for 50 weeks, and was worried he'd been essentially sentenced to be tortured to death. Still horrible what they're doing to him. He's going to be in prison for quite a while.[/quote]

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