90 Lashes for Bringing a Cellphone to School

A 13 year old Saudi Arabian school girl has been sentenced to 90 lashes in front of her classmates and 2 months in jail...all for bringing a cellphone to school. Cellphones are banned in her school, and apparently bringing one warrants such harsh punishment in this. Her punishment did not originally include the 2 months in jail, and it was only added on because of media attention brought to the case and the court decided to punish her for trying to draw attention to the case 'in revenge.'

Her punishment is harsher than many given to thieves and robbers. 

In more recent Saudi news, courts have refused to annul the marriage of an 8 year old girl to a 47 year old man to settle her father's debt.

All in all, none of this is really any surprise for a country with such a sad human rights record.