She spent three years in a jail where, she said, she was raped, awaiting trial on trumped-up corruption charges.

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At the other end of the justice system, a young British tourist in Dubai, the UAE's other main state, faces up to six years in jail after reporting to the police that she had been raped.

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After whatever it was he did with the King of Saudi Arabia -- (laughter) -- did he ask or does he know about The National Review report, that a 23-year-old Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to a year in jail and 100 lashes because, having been gang-raped and impregnated, she tried to obtain an abortion?

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