Saturday, October 24, 2009 RIYADH: A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.Abdul-Rahman al-Hazza, the spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Information, told a US-based news agency he had no details of the sentencing and could not comment on it.In the program, which aired in July on the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, Mazen Abdul-Jawad appears to describe an active sex life and shows sex toys that were blurred by the station. The same court sentenced Abdul-Jawad earlier this month to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.The man's lawyer, Sulaiman al-Jumeii, maintains his client was duped by the TV station and was unaware in many cases h...
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