“Cruel and unusual punishment”: Sharia court sentences prisoner to be surgically paralysed

by Rachel Ogbu   A man in Saudi Arabia has received a sentence to be paralysed from the waist down. 24-year-old Ali al-Khawahir who has already spent 10 years in jail is to have his spinal cord cut and left paralysed as punishment for stabbing and paralysing a childhood friend when he was just 14. Unless... Read More