Officials blame victim for rape
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The Justice Ministry said a Saudi woman sentenced to jail time and flogging after being raped by seven men was an adulteress who invited the attack because she was partially dressed in a parked car with her lover.
The statement, carried by the Saudi Press Agency, sought to ease international outrage over the case by discrediting the woman, who had said she was meeting a friend from high school when the attack occurred.
It said the 19-year-old victim was married and had confessed to an affair. The report said the attackers saw her “in an indecent condition . . . then the assault occurred on her and the man.”
The seven men got prison sentences of two to nine years.
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