Why Saudi Journalist Rosanna Al Yami has been sentenced to 60 lashes?”
A female Saudi journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a TV show that featured a man detailing his sexual conquests. The court also banned Rosanna Al-Yami from leaving the country for two years, sources tell CNN. She is believed to be the first Saudi journalist ever sentenced to lashes, though it’s not clear she was even involved in the controversial episode. Al-Yama works for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. as a show coordinator, but she apparently had no direct involvement in the episode of “A Thick Red Line” that caused all the fuss. No matter—the judge sentenced her as a “deterrence,” she tells the AP. “I am too frustrated and upset to appeal the sentence,” she adds. As for the man who boasted of his sex life on the show: he’s currently serving a 5-year sentence.
Female Journalist Rosanna al-Yami Sentenced To 60 Lashes for Connection With Lebanese TV Network Saudi court orders flogging of female journalist from al-Arabiya reports that a barbaric Saudi court has ordered 60 lashes for a female journalist who had the audacity to be connected with a Lebanese TV station that broadcast content offensive to the Kingdom’s brutish censors. Rosanna al-Yami said a Jeddah judge dropped all charges that she had been directly involved with a program on Beirut-based network LBC in which a Saudi man boasted of his sex life, outraging Saudi conservatives and leading to the man’s imprisonment. ” They just said the channel was illegal. But the Saudi minister of information himself appeared on LBC a couple week ago ” Rosanna al-Yami However, Yami said the judge sentenced her to 60 lashes for having been a part-time employee for LBC’s Saudi operations. The judge said that LBC had lacked the appropriate operating license.
