I seem to remember that a relatively low number of lashes can actually be fatal, something like 50 can actually kill you. Your body goes in to shock, plus there is massive damage to the tissues around the spinal column. In theory this 7000 lash punishment could take years to complete and leave them with so much scar tissue they will never be able to bend their backs again. Horrific stuff!
I seem to remember that a relatively low number of lashes can actually be fatal, something like 50 can actually kill you. Your body goes in to shock, plus there is massive damage to the tissues around the spinal column. In theory this 7000 lash punishment could take years to complete and leave them with so much scar tissue they will never be able to bend their backs again. Horrific stuff!
It's so barbarick and pointless, what a the saudi's afraid of??
Countries like Saudi and Iran are barbaric, with repulsive ruling regimes. It's also disgusting that the fraud investigation was turned off at the Saudi's request. We should not be selling arms to Saudi Arabia in the first place.
Painful and kind of amusing, but just shows how wrong these loonies can be
Eh ? Kind of amusing ?!?
Pretty shocking. Can understand if someone raped a young girl and got 7000 lashes, that would be great. But if these two were just two guys living together as a couple then its very bad in 2007 reading stuff like this
I seem to remember that a relatively low number of lashes can actually be fatal, something like 50 can actually kill you. Your body goes in to shock, plus there is massive damage to the tissues around the spinal column. In theory this 7000 lash punishment could take years to complete and leave them with so much scar tissue they will never be able to bend their backs again. Horrific stuff!
I think stopping them bending over is the whole point :-o
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A certain section of society would happily pay for 7000 lashes.
But they would probably also fall into the catergory of "loonies" :D
It's so barbarick and pointless, what a the saudi's afraid of??
It makes me both mad and sad.
Andrew.
At least this guy isn't afraid of speaking out..........
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fm8IuR2VF3M
See his other videos for more realism......
Eh ? Kind of amusing ?!?
Pretty shocking. Can understand if someone raped a young girl and got 7000 lashes, that would be great. But if these two were just two guys living together as a couple then its very bad in 2007 reading stuff like this
I think stopping them bending over is the whole point :-o
did this link appear in a google search you were doing? :-o
Not the actual lashings or the victims so called crimes, just the fact that in this day and age somebody still dishes out lashings.
It was my wife who found the story, I just thought it was so ridiculous I would share.