Man Jumps to Save His Honor
From today’s Arab Times. Rape is despicable, whether committed on man, woman, or child, daughter, sister, son, brother, neighbor, domestic or wife. Despicable. It’s a crime of power, of humiliation, of ownership and it is robbery as well as assault.
Man dies saving ‘honour’
KUWAIT CITY : The Court of Appeals Monday set Nov 19, 2008 to issue a verdict in a case of four Kuwaitis and two Bedoun, who have been convicted of causing the death of a Kuwaiti man after they kidnapped him and tried to rape him.
Case papers indicate on April 20, 2007, five of the six men agreed to kidnap and rape the victim. One of the accused talked to the victim from the Internet chat room and pretended to belong to the third gender.
The man invited the victim to his place to have sex. He went, along with another accused and took the victim in the car of the latter to a flat which was rented by yet another accused for the purpose of prostitution.
When they arrived at the place, one of the accused locked the door of the apartment and others who had been hiding in the apartment showed up. When they tried to rape the victim, he jumped out from the ninth floor window and fell to his death.
On June 18, 2008, the Criminal Court sentenced the first, second, third and fifth suspects to 15 years in jail. The court sentenced the fourth suspect to seven years in jail. The court sentenced the sixth suspect to three years in jail and ordered the deportation of the fifth and sixth suspects after serving the sentence.
The session was presided over by Judge Faisal Khuraibet.
By Moamen Al-Masri
Special to the Arab Times
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“third gender” ?
That report sounds shady. I really want to know how this ruling was carried. Did the guys who kidnapped him actually admit this? I mean the only person who knew the truth is dead, they could have got away with it. Why would they say that they kidnapped him, planned to rape him, and he jumped to get away from him? Was the guy who died Kuwaiti and the rapers all foriegners? That would explain it.
‘third gender’ maybe they meant gentleman?!
Third Gender is transvestite. I remember the original story, and there was no third gender in it. I recall the rapist was posing as a woman and the victim was iranian.
I remember reading about it, Skunk. I don’t know if it is a Gulf thing, but it is definitely an Omani thing. A man can elect to be a woman for several years, and later he can decide to be a man again. I think I remember they wear lavender clothing, and they actually go to weddings with the women as a woman. It’s a village thing, not a city thing.
UmmAdam – there really is a third gender, but nobody talks much about it. I read about it in a book by a Finnish woman living in Oman.
Hellraiser – the rapist was posing as a woman?