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Saudi to paralyze man for punishment
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Lovely bunch. Let's not let thousands of years of gradual civilization get in the way of old testament revenge plays.

Saudi paralysis sentencing 'grotesque' UK

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The law of retribution means the victim can demand his attacker suffers the same punishment as he caused

The UK has urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out a reported sentencing of paralysis for a Saudi man as punishment for paralysing another man.


A Foreign Office spokesperson said London was "deeply concerned" by the sentence, describing it as "grotesque".


Such punishment was "prohibited under international law", the official added.


Saudi media reports earlier said the 24-year-old man could be paralysed from the waist down if he could not pay his victim £250,000 in compensation.


Ali al-Khawahir was 14 when he stabbed a friend in the back in the Eastern Province town of al-Ahsa. He has been in prison for 10 years.


The judge in the case has reportedly interpreted the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution, that Saudi Arabia follows as meaning that he in turn could face being paralysed.


Amnesty International has described this as tantamount to torture.


The sentencing is the latest example of Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law attracting international criticism.


BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's comments mark an unusually strong plea to the Saudi authorities in what is, by any standards an unusual and disturbing case.


Successive British governments have struggled at times to harmonise their concerns about human rights in Saudi Arabia with the fact that the Kingdom remains a key ally and a major customer for British weaponry, he adds.

(Memo to self: must email Downing Street to suggest Blighty do more and more business with Saudi and to be sure to applaud government for continuing the biggest arms deal in history with them - and for perennially covering up graft and corruption associated with same).

[PS, ignore Blighty's posturing about being "deeply concerned" - they're not. But they are intensely deeply grateful for all the money rolling into Blighty Plc].

[PPS, if the law of retribution had any real meaning, the line of Al Saud would've been castrated, hung, drawn and quartered a very long time ago]


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And these Neanderthals are our great allies in the Middle East and close personal and political friends of persons with high station in the UK, UE and especially USA. But decent law-abiding democratically elected governments we don't like we overthrow and send in the Jackels....the Greeks had a term for this kind of World...'histeron-proteron' [an upside-down World logic and ethos]
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