Amnesty 'outrage' at Saudi paralysis sentence

The reported sentencing of paralysis for a Saudi man as punishment for paralysing another man has been described as "outrageous" by a leading human rights group.

Saudi reports say the 24-year-old man could be paralysed from the waist down if he cannot pay his victim one million riyals (£250,000) in compensation.Amnesty International says the sentence is a form of torture.

The man has been in prison for 10 years since he stabbed a friend in the back.
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][font=Arial][/size][size=1.077em]Saudi newspapers say Ali al-Khawahir was 14 when he paralysed his friend in the attack in the Eastern Province town of al-Ahsa.
The law of qisas, or retribution, in Saudi Arabia means his victim can demand that he suffers exactly the same punishment as he caused.
"Paralysing someone as punishment for a crime would be torture," [url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/saudi-arabia-news-paralysis-sentence-outrageous-2013-04-02]said Ann Harrison, Middle East and North Africa deputy director at Amnesty"It is time the authorities in Saudi Arabia start respecting their international legal obligations and remove these terrible punishments from the law."This is the latest example of Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law attracting international criticism.
Amnesty says the law has seen judicially approved eye-gougings and tooth extractions
The rights group condemns the practice as tantamount to torture, urging that the latest punishment must not be enforced.Amnesty's intervention will certainly fuel a growing debate in Saudi Arabia itself over its style of justice, says the BBC's Arab affairs editor, Sebastian Usher.

These people are barbaric , wahabis and salafis are one step removed from  the human race. I was going to compare the Saudis to animals but that would have been an insult it animals

this post never caused me even the slightest interest.  I dont even know why I bother with it now....humans have been doing this crap for so long now I don't believe it will stop until humans are extinct.

the least human reaction in all of this  is ''why has this happened..why was the man stabbed in the first place and how can we prevent such things from taking place so that we have a decent society?"

human society is always with a gangster minority in charge, running roughshod over the majority..enacting laws that magnify, elaborate and increase such horror as this here..focusing the people on such unimaginable and unnecessary human sacrifice so they can maintain their power.
the crap has been going on so long it is embedded now in humans everywhere.  the positive  options buried, lost to the general consciousness..consciousness now filled with barbarity from one end of the planet to the next.

I am sick of human society..a pestilence it is..a bunch of, insane, sick, 'sycopathic' people running the show whom we call them respectable, the elites..but who in simple words are nothing but horrific gangsters, capable of and carrying out unimaginable anti-human excess in the world every day. 

we have created criminal societies globally and live in them daily. we all know this to be true, accept all the lies they have created for us to live by and are happy like pappy in the shiit. 

that's human society the world over..everywhere without fail...GANGSTER SOCIETY FULL OF HUMAN SACRIFICE FOR THE SAKE OF KEEPING GANGSTER SOCIETY IN PLACE.

I have had enuff of it.  there seems no hope of change..no matter how positive what you learn may be, home much better social life can be you cant make a positive difference.  you can and will lose your life trying. and those who would benefit  most are the ones who will likely kill you.

and if you do make a difference like Hugo Chavez managed to achieve they are coming to kill you... the devils.  and they will use one of your own who cant get close to you, an ordinary trusted soul who would be nothing without you..yet those are the ones who do the deed.

eff it all