Just in case you decided to absent-mindledly forget that, you know, there are pretty decent reasons to live in America:
Egyptian Raouf Amin languishes in a Saudi jail and is punished with 70 lashes once a week. Cut off from his family in Egypt, the 52-year-old doctor was convicted for prescribing painkillers to a Saudi princess that led to her addiction.
An appeal court judge ruled that Amin will be beaten weekly until he has received 1,500 lashes - and then he'll spend another 14 years behind bars.
I know, I know, it's an easy target - "hey, those [insert people who are different from us / live somewhere else / have crazy ideas] sure are [while I would never be so judgmental as to say 'inferior,' I would certainly stake some vague and ill-conceived claim to a higher moral ground that I can't exactly prove or defend, but screw you - we have better TV and that settles it]."
Still, kinda suxxor:
The doctor, who has lived and worked in the Gulf state for more than 20 years, had been treating the princess for several months for back pains after she visited the hospital in which he worked.
Ahmed Amin, the doctor's son, who himself was born in Saudi Arabia, claims the woman went into the hospital and specified the medication she wanted.
The woman had been receiving similar treatment in the United States after she had fallen from a horse while riding.
Hafez Abu Saeda, the director of EOHR concurred that the medication Amin had prescribed was the same as the woman had been receiving in the United States, "so it is obvious that the doctor was not at fault for her addiction," Abu Saeda concluded.
"It is a harsh sentence that really must be looked at," he said at his Cairo office, flipping through reports on Amin's case.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are apparently on the case, but it's already been a year of lashings.
In other news, the World Super Series thingie had some rain I heard!
