Saudi female journalist sentenced to 60 lashes for helping prepare frank TV sex show
By APSaturday, October 24, 2009
Saudi female journalist gets 60 lashes for TV show
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi lawyer says a female journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.
Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her include involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.
In the program, aired on a Lebanese satellite channel, Mazen Abdul-Jawad, scandalized Saudis by describing an active sex life.
His lawyer, Sulaiman al-Jumeii, told The Associated Press Saturday that not trying al-Yami before a court specialized in media matters at the Information Ministry is a violation of Saudi law.
Abdul-Jawad received five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.
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