The Saudi Arabian justice system is akin to the justice system of European medieval countries of over 800 years ago. Fortunately, the vast majority of countries have now moved on, but not unfortunately Saudi Arabia who cling to backward dark age beliefs and systems based firstly upon their nomadic traditions. This is reinforced with their own fundamentalist, oppressive version of Islam. As I have mentioned on another recent post, they have and still are, the root cause of those ideals that now flourish in Afghanistan and with ISIS.
What can be done about this sub human punishment on a victim (and her lawyer) of such a brutal crime?
Nothing much it seems. Currently, it would be a violation of International Law to attempt to interfere in another sovereign states judiciary, even if their legal system is based on one that is over 800 years old and they systematically brutalise and oppress it's people. There can be and there has been exceptions to this law, but that will never happen in this case.
It is interesting that Saudi Arabia (along with other Gulf states and the United States) have not signed up to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Almost every other country in the world has. Why should they sign up to such an agreement when the country is effectively a rogue state run by a bunch of religious thugs who trample over peoples and especially, women's rights.
Why therefore, is this country a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council?? My view is that they should be booted off it ASAP.
And why will nothing be done to bring this rogue state into line?
Simples... oil (lots of it) and the huge trade in arms that goes on between it and the west.
