How lovely. Let's hold hands with the putrid House of Saud ever so tightly and bow to it even lower than low. UGH !!
An Egyptian mother-of-two, lashed 300 times, is serving a 5 year prison sentence after quarreling with a Saudi princess.
The predicament of incarcerated Egyptian businesswoman Nagla Wafa, who was jailed in Saudi Arabia three years ago, drew the country's attention when Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian took up her cause via his Twitter account on Sunday.
In September 2009, Wafa was arrested and incarcerated in a Saudi prison for a year and a half without proper investigation, legal representation or trial, her father Yehia Wafa told Ahram Online in a rare interview, Tuesday.
She later faced trial, during which she was forbidden from hiring a lawyer. After 13 sessions, she was sentenced to five years in prison and 500 lashes. So far, she has served 300 of these floggings.
According to her father, Wafa’s story started seven years ago when the mother-of-two travelled to Riyadh with her then husband to launch a flourishing career as a wedding planner and flower arrangement expert.
Her clients included Saudi elites and members of the royal family. As her business boomed, one of them, a daughter of the king, asked to be her partner............
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