A POST on Facebook claimed that last week a Sharia court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a 19-year-old gang rape victim to 200 lashes and six months in jail. The crime of the Muslim Shi’ite woman? Before she was raped by seven strangers, she was on a car with a male friend, and this violated the Sharia Law on the segregation of sexes.

The FB post said she was originally sentenced to 90 lashes for violating the law on segregation of sexes but this was increased to 200 after she complained against the justice system.

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