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...Office, the Saudis insisted the pair had not been married at all. Indeed, they stressed that marriage of a member of the royal family to a commoner is no crime in Saudi Arabia. The princess and her lover had been executed after a "sentence by an Islamic court for adultery???and for an adulterous act the law is death." According to the Saudi protest the British press stories had "distorted reality and constituted an abuse of the intentions of Islamic law which is based on divine justice and the equality of all people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Tragic Princess | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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