Wednesday, December 10, 2008  Saudi Justice, Egyptian Outrage:
The Case of the Two Doctors  By Joseph El-khoury  "Saudi Arabia
previously pardoned a Philippine housemaid, sentenced to jailing
and flogging after intervention from its government," said
Ebrahim Al Zafran, a representative of the Arab Doctors' Union
in Cairo. "Are the Egyptian doctors inferior to the Philippine
maids?"   It is with these enlightened words that one leading
Egyptian doctor protested against the flogging and jailing of
two Egyptian doctors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In
October, Drs Rauf Al Arabi 53 and Shawki Abd Rabuh were
sentenced to 1500 lashes and 15 years jail for their alleged
role in ‘facilitating the addiction’ of a Saudi princess. Very
little is available online on the exact nature of their offence.
Facilitating addiction is a vague term as it could mean anything
from supplying a prescription to a patient in genuine pain to
chasing the dragon with her in a crack den. Opiate painkillers
(Morphine being one of the