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China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-27 08:37
No lashes for journalist
The Saudi king has waived a 60 lashes punishment for a female journalist charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, a government official said yesterday.
King Abdullah's decision followed intense media attention sparked by Saturday's sentencing of journalist Rozanna al-Yami, who was ordered flogged by a judge in the western city of Jiddah. Al-Yami had been charged with preparing a sex talk show and advertising the segment on the Internet.
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