Guilty by association
Saudi court orders flogging of female journalist
RIYADH: A court on Saturday sentenced a female Saudi journalist to receive 60 lashes for having links with a Saudi-owned Lebanese TV network, which broadcast a provocative show in July. Rozana al-Yami said a Jeddah judge had dropped all charges that she had been directly involved with a programme on Beirut-based network LBC in which a Saudi man boasted about his sex life, outraging Saudi conservatives and leading to the man’s imprisonment. However, Yami said the judge sentenced her to 60 lashes for having been a part-time employee for LBC’s Saudi operations. The judge mentioned LBC had lacked the appropriate operating licence, she said. “It’s a punishment for all journalists through me,” Yami said. “They just said the channel was illegal. But the Saudi minister of information himself appeared on LBC a couple of weeks ago,” she said. afp
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