Judge orders man be surgically paralysed as sentence
Published: 2013 April 04 23:12:38 (3009 Views)
A Saudi court has ordered that 24-year-old Ali Al-Khawahir be surgically paralyzed as punishment for stabbing his friend 10 years ago.
After getting into a dispute with the friend, Al-Khawahir stabbed the boy in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
A court ruled that Al-Kawahir must pay the victim $1 million riyals (approximately $270,000) or undergo the surgical paralysis.
"But we don't have even a tenth of this sum," Al-Khawahir's 60-year-old mother told the newspaper Al Hayat.
"Ten years have passed with hundreds of sleepless nights," his mother added. "My hair has become gray at a young age because of my son's problem. I have been frightened to death whenever I think about my son's fate and that he will have to be paralyzed."
International human rights groups and the British government are urging Saudi Arabia to rescind the sentence of surgical paralysis.
"Such practices are prohibited under international law and have no place in any society," the British Foreign Office wrote on its website Thursday.
Eye-for-an-eye punishments are not uncommon in Saudi Arabia, though this may be the first time that surgical paralysis has been ordered in the kingdom.
"Paralyzing someone as punishment for a crime would be torture," Ann Harrison, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, said Tuesday in a statement. "That such a punishment might be implemented is utterly shocking, even in a context where flogging is frequently imposed as a punishment for some offences, as happens in Saudi Arabia."
- NYDailyMail
After getting into a dispute with the friend, Al-Khawahir stabbed the boy in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
A court ruled that Al-Kawahir must pay the victim $1 million riyals (approximately $270,000) or undergo the surgical paralysis.
"But we don't have even a tenth of this sum," Al-Khawahir's 60-year-old mother told the newspaper Al Hayat.
"Ten years have passed with hundreds of sleepless nights," his mother added. "My hair has become gray at a young age because of my son's problem. I have been frightened to death whenever I think about my son's fate and that he will have to be paralyzed."
International human rights groups and the British government are urging Saudi Arabia to rescind the sentence of surgical paralysis.
"Such practices are prohibited under international law and have no place in any society," the British Foreign Office wrote on its website Thursday.
Eye-for-an-eye punishments are not uncommon in Saudi Arabia, though this may be the first time that surgical paralysis has been ordered in the kingdom.
"Paralyzing someone as punishment for a crime would be torture," Ann Harrison, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, said Tuesday in a statement. "That such a punishment might be implemented is utterly shocking, even in a context where flogging is frequently imposed as a punishment for some offences, as happens in Saudi Arabia."
- NYDailyMail
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