Saudi Arabia To Flog 75-Year-Old Woman For Breaching Sex Segregation Rules

The Telegraph reports: "The minister of interior (Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz) is reported to have ordered the immediate detention and flogging of a 75-year-old woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, along with two Saudi Arabian men known only as Fahad and Hadyan," Amnesty International said. "The Saudi Arabian authorities must not carry out the imminent flogging and imprisonment of an elderly woman and two younger men." Amnesty said all avenues of appeal had now been exhausted in Saudi courts against the trio's March conviction for being in the company of members of the opposite sex who are not close relatives. "It is abhorrent that an elderly woman is at risk of 40 lashes," said the deputy director of the watchdog's Middle East and North Africa Programme, Philip Luther. Tweet