{"id":116,"date":"2007-11-22T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T21:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rightoncanada.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/22\/stop-the-flogging-of-a-rape-victim\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:53:34","slug":"stop-the-flogging-of-a-rape-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Stop the flogging of a rape victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 22, 2007<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear<\/font> RightOnCanada Supporter,<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
\"Flogging<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

A young woman, known as “the Woman from al-Qatif”, who was kidnapped and gang raped, has been sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to be flogged with 200 lashes and spend 6 months in jail for being alone with a man.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>Saudi Arabia is a declared ally in the fight for democracy and human rights.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>Please call on Prime Minister Harper to demand that Saudi Arabia:<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>* immediately halt the planned floggings<\/span><\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>* drop the charges against the young woman<\/span><\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>* reform its legal system so as to comply with its international human rights obligations<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>Please speak up. It takes one minute to send the letter and it makes a big difference.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font>Sincerely,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font>
\n
\nKathleen Ruff<\/strong>
\n<\/font>Founder of RightOnCanada.ca\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/span>and Senior Advisor to the Rideau Institute<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 22, 2007 Dear RightOnCanada Supporter, A young woman, known as “the Woman from al-Qatif”, who was kidnapped and gang raped, has been sentenced by a Saudi Arabian court to be flogged with 200 lashes and spend 6 months in jail for being alone with a man. Saudi Arabia is a declared ally in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}