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Spare the whip - it's savage, inhumane - says the
world's fourth major executioner and premier war
criminal.
Which power continues to station troops on Saudi soil
and use the country as a military outpost in the
Persian Gulf.
Everything was all right until the mother country's
own citizens were given a few lashes.
--- "Sandeep Vaidya (LMI)"
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> (The Hindu, June 5, 2001)
> Spare the whip, U.K. tells Saudi Arabia
> By Hasan Suroor
> LONDON, JUNE 4. As a former colonial power used to
> whipping the natives, Britain is clearly embarrassed
> that its own citizens now find themselves at the
> wrong end of the whip as it appeals to the Saudi
> Arabian Government to forgive four Britons who have
> been sentenced to flogging for allegedly illegal
> alcohol trading.
> The four are to be given up to 500 lashes each,
> besides prison sentences, provoking outrage here
> with the British Government calling it an
> infringement of human rights. Diplomatic moves are
> reported to be on to save them from public
> humiliation, even if it means longer prison
> sentences as a price for escaping the whip.
> Families of the four men, including a
> son-in-law-father-in-law duo, are believed to have
> been advised by the Foreign Office not to do or say
> anything that might prove counter-productive and
> undermine diplomatic efforts. A Foreign Office
> spokesperson said British diplomats in Riyadh were
> in ``constant contact'' with the Saudi authorities
> and pointed out that the British Government had
> consistently taken the view that corporal punishment
> infringed human rights.
> The Government's understandably cautious approach
> has not gone down too well with the families of
> those facing flogging, and the wife of one was
> quoted in The Times as saying: ``We are in a
> terrible dilemma. We want to protest about this
> barbaric sentence and get something done but we are
> afraid if we do then it will be worse for our men.
> The Prime Minister and Robin Cook (foreign
> secretary) must step in. This is medieval.'' The
> four - Kelvin Hawkins, David Mornin, Paul Moss and
> Ken Hartley - are among 12 Britons who were detained
> by the Saudi authorities following a crackdown on
> bootleggers last winter. A turf war among expatriate
> British bootleggers was alleged to be behind a
> series of bombings in Saudi Arabia last year.
> A British hospital worker, Sandy Mitchell, has since
> been shown on Saudi T.V. confessing to one such
> bombing in which one British businessman was killed.
> Human rights groups have expressed doubts about the
> authenticity of the ``confession'' saying it may
> have been extorted from Mitchell.
> There is temptation here to take comfort from the
> fact that no Briton has been flogged in Saudi Arabia
> since 1985 when John Kelly of Dorset was given 250
> lashes for breaking the country's anti-drinking law.
> Since then, at least three Britons have been spared
> the rod and, instead, given longer sentences or
> deported - a precedent which has been widely
> recalled in the media here in the campaign to save
> the four.
>
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