The Daily Star, AP, February 03, 2013
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Cars drive past a housing compound in South of Riyadh December 17, 2012. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed |
RIYADH:
Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child
abuse after reports that a prominent cleric received only a light sentence
after confessing to beating to death his 5-year-old daughter.
The social
media campaign gaining momentum Sunday is the latest attempt to use the
Internet to pressure the kingdom's ultraconservative rulers.
Saudi media
reports say Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a frequent guest on Islamic TV programs, was
arrested in November on charges of killing the girl. The reports said he
questioned the child's virginity.
Saudi media
say he was freed last week after serving a short prison term and agreeing to
pay $50,000 in "blood money" to avoid a possible death sentence.
The money
was presumably offered to the girl's mother or other relatives
.
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