Mort d’une Algérienne à La Mecque

[Al-khiyal]

الحكم بالسجن 7 سنوات و 500 جلدة في حق "قاتل" الجزائرية سارة بن ويس

ذكر تقارير إخبارية اليوم الأربعاء أن المحكمة الجزئية في مكة المكرمة بالسعودية أصدرت الثلاثاء حكماً بالسجن سبع سنوات و500 جلدة ضد المتهم وهو يمني الجنسية بقتل الفتاة الجزائرية سارة بن ويس في شهر سبتمبر الماضي.

وقضت المحكمة السعودية كذلك بإبعاد المتهم عن البلاد بشكل نهائي بعد الانتهاء من محكومتيه.

وكانت الحادثة قد أثارت وقتها غضب الشارع الجزائري خصوصا أنها تزامنت مع فترة الحج، وق خرج مئات الحجاج الجزائريين في مسيرة للمطالبة بمعاقبة المتسببين في مقتل الطفلة سارة.

[Al-khiyal]

Expat convicted of killing Algerian girl in Makkah

MAKKAH, January 19, 2011 -- An Arab expatriate convicted of causing the death of 15-year-old Algerian pilgrim girl Sarah bint Wanis last Haj was sentenced to seven years in prison and 500 lashes, local Arabic dailies reported Wednesday. Presiding judge Sheikh Saleh ibn Muhammad Al-Talib also ruled that the accused, a Yemeni, be expelled from the country after his jail term and never allowed to come to Saudi Arabia again. The verdict will be submitted to the Court of Appeals for final approval. The judge said the girl was not sexually assaulted. Sarah had fallen to her death from the 16th floor of the hotel where she stayed with her stepfather. The judge said the defendant was indirectly responsible for the victim’s death. The Algerian consul in Jeddah also attended the court session and expressed happiness at the verdict.

[Al-khiyal]

...The Algerian consul in Jeddah also attended the court session
and expressed happiness at the verdict...

Yemeni gets 7 years for Algerian girl’s death

JEDDAH, January 19, 2011 -- The Summary Court in Makkah has sentenced a Yemeni national, accused of being involved in the death of an Algerian girl last year, to seven years in prison and 500 lashes. The girl, Sara, was killed when she fell from a window of the hotel she was staying in with her parents for Haj. She was involved in a relationship with the defendant, Ammar, during her stay. She fell when she attempted to flee after being spotted by another Yemeni who caught her and Ammar having dinner alone in a room. The Yemeni had threatened he would inform her parents. A source said the judge found the defendant guilty of being indirectly involved in her death. The verdict included deporting the man after he completes his sentence. The forensic examination showed the girl was a virgin and was not raped. The Makkah Court earlier endorsed the statements of the Yemeni persons who testified that they pursued her after they saw her with the defendant on that day. However, a representative of the Algerian Consulate objected to the verdict and will appeal at the Court of Cassation.

[Al-khiyal]

Five-hundred lashes for man after girl, 15, in his company dies from balcony jump

January 20, 2011 -- A Saudi court sentenced a Yemeni to seven years in prison and 500 lashes for his indirect involvement in the September death of an Algerian girl in Mecca, local papers said on Wednesday. The 15-year-old girl was visiting the Islamic holy city for the umrah, or minor pilgrimage, when her body was found on the roof of a hotel adjacent to the one in which she was staying. Al-Iqtissadiya daily said the Yemeni, whom it identified as Ammar, "admitted during his interrogation that he had an affair with the girl" and that they were having dinner when one of his colleagues burst in. A fight then broke out between Ammar and his colleague, so the defendant urged the girl to "flee before her parents discover that she was in his company, but afraid, she hurled herself from the balcony," the Arabic-language daily quoted him as saying. It is a crime under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of sharia law for a man and woman to be alone in a private place unless they are related. The case sparked an outcry in Algeria after it was initially reported that the girl had been gang-raped and then murdered. However, an autopsy has revealed that her body bore signs of injuries, but that the teenager had not been raped, according to Al-Iqtissadiya.