Newkie

Obviously from a European/Western perspective it's absolute bull**** and there's barely any reasoning in that sentence, let alone justice.

However- this next comment might cut a bit close to the whole "can any blame be apportioned to the victim" thing because it's down that line of reasoning-but the fact that she was ignorant of the laws in a very different country from her own obviously worked against her. I'm not saying she should be expected to study Sharia Law extensively before her trip, but there are certain aspects of societies like these which I would expect to be almost common knowledge by now, namely their backward stance on rape and women's rights which obviously go hand in hand with deep rooted misogyny and gender bias.

Hopefully justice is done on her appeal, but (from the little of what I've seen on the case) it seems the best she can hope for is to go home after a few months in prison, rather than actually get the perpetrator/(s)? imprisoned themselves. Hardly justice.

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