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Lawyer takes on Saudi Sharia police Posted on : Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:54:01 GMT | Author : World News Editor RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 23 A Saudi human rights lawyer says the morals police oppress people in the name of religion and act as if the law does not apply to them. Abdul-Rahman al-Lahem, 35, will take on the Sharia police, charged with enforcing Islamic laws, in court next week. He accuses them of kidnapping a woman and her daughter as they left someone's home on the outskirts of Riyadh, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The police assumed the women had been visiting male friends and accused them of illegal promiscuity. But the two had been at the home of female relatives. Unlike thousands of women who are intimidated into dropping their grievances, the women insisted on taking their kidnappers to court. If we win this case, it will have more of an impact than a dozen lectures or newspaper articles, Lahem told the Post. It will send a powerful message to them, and to the public, who view men of the cloth as untouchable. It will prove that nobody is above the rule of law. Copyright 2006 by UPI +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
