I've become addicted to reading the crime section of the local paper. A few days ago there was an article about an Indonesian housemaid who was sentenced to "100 lashes following her conviction of maintaining illicit relations with her sponsor’s friend who had left the country for good before the matter came to the fore. The 41-year-old Egyptian lover, who was tried in absentia, was sentenced to a year imprisonment and a technical subsequent deportation."
Side by side in today's paper was an announcement reading "Three Asians were sentenced in absentia to a month's imprisonment and fined 1,000 Qatari riyals (about $365) for 'urinating in a public place under the influence of liquor.'
Compare this sentence to that of a Syrian truck driver who was fined 2,0000 riyals for reckless driving that led to the death of a local man. (No jail term, but the convict's driving license was suspended for three months.)
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