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My apologies for conflating the US and UK. RR
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> Spare the whip - it's savage, inhumane - says the
> world's fourth major executioner and premier war
> criminal.
> Which power continues to station troops on Saudi
> soil
> and use the country as a military outpost in the
> Persian Gulf.
> Everything was all right until the mother country's
> own citizens were given a few lashes.
>
>
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> > (The Hindu, June 5, 2001)
> > Spare the whip, U.K. tells Saudi Arabia
> > By Hasan Suroor
> > LONDON, JUNE 4. As a former colonial power used to
> > whipping the natives, Britain is clearly
> embarrassed
> > that its own citizens now find themselves at the
> > wrong end of the whip as it appeals to the Saudi
> > Arabian Government to forgive four Britons who
> have
> > been sentenced to flogging for allegedly illegal
> > alcohol trading.
> > The four are to be given up to 500 lashes each,
> > besides prison sentences, provoking outrage here
> > with the British Government calling it an
> > infringement of human rights. Diplomatic moves are
> > reported to be on to save them from public
> > humiliation, even if it means longer prison
> > sentences as a price for escaping the whip.
> > Families of the four men, including a
> > son-in-law-father-in-law duo, are believed to have
> > been advised by the Foreign Office not to do or
> say
> > anything that might prove counter-productive and
> > undermine diplomatic efforts. A Foreign Office
> > spokesperson said British diplomats in Riyadh were
> > in ``constant contact'' with the Saudi authorities
> > and pointed out that the British Government had
> > consistently taken the view that corporal
> punishment
> > infringed human rights.
> > The Government's understandably cautious approach
> > has not gone down too well with the families of
> > those facing flogging, and the wife of one was
> > quoted in The Times as saying: ``We are in a
> > terrible dilemma. We want to protest about this
> > barbaric sentence and get something done but we
> are
> > afraid if we do then it will be worse for our men.
>
> > The Prime Minister and Robin Cook (foreign
> > secretary) must step in. This is medieval.'' The
> > four - Kelvin Hawkins, David Mornin, Paul Moss and
> > Ken Hartley - are among 12 Britons who were
> detained
> > by the Saudi authorities following a crackdown on
> > bootleggers last winter. A turf war among
> expatriate
> > British bootleggers was alleged to be behind a
> > series of bombings in Saudi Arabia last year.
> > A British hospital worker, Sandy Mitchell, has
> since
> > been shown on Saudi T.V. confessing to one such
> > bombing in which one British businessman was
> killed.
> > Human rights groups have expressed doubts about
> the
> > authenticity of the ``confession'' saying it may
> > have been extorted from Mitchell.
> > There is temptation here to take comfort from the
> > fact that no Briton has been flogged in Saudi
> Arabia
> > since 1985 when John Kelly of Dorset was given 250
> > lashes for breaking the country's anti-drinking
> law.
> > Since then, at least three Britons have been
> spared
> > the rod and, instead, given longer sentences or
> > deported - a precedent which has been widely
> > recalled in the media here in the campaign to save
> > the four.
> >
> >
> >
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