Spain Revives Rape Case Against Saudi Prince

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Source: The New York Times

MADRID — Spain has reopened an abandoned sexual assault case against a Saudi prince who is one of the world’s richest men, reviving accusations that he raped a 20-year-old model on a luxury yacht in the Spanish Mediterranean in August 2008.

The prince, Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, is the largest individual stakeholder in Citigroup and, among his other major holdings, is the second-largest investor in the media conglomerate News Corporation. Forbes valued his fortune this year at $19.4 billion, making him the 26th richest man in the world and the single richest in the Arab world.

The accuser did not go public and the original complaint appears to have remained largely unknown, and the case was quietly closed in July 2010 for what a judge on the Mediterranean resort island of Ibiza called lack of evidence. But on appeal, a provincial court for the Balearic Islands, which has jurisdiction over Ibiza, ordered the judge to resume investigating and to summon Prince Alwaleed to appear. The provincial court said the judge, Carmen Martín Montero, was on holiday and could not be reached for comment.

A spokesperson for Prince Alwaleed’s investment arm, the Kingdom Holding Company, called the revived rape accusations “complete and utter nonsense.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/world/europe/14spain.html

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1. also has major holdings in CNN/TimeWarner

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[demosincebirth]

2. Friends of the Bushes?

[tawadi]

3. Saudi royalty think they own the world

Oh wait, do they?

[buckrogers1965]

4. The rich and powerful are above the law.

If it was a poor person that had been accused of raping that model, they would have been slam dunked into prison, even if they were innocent. This is balanced out by the fact that the rich and powerful are not put into prison for any crime, even if they are indisputably guilty.

[Hart2008]

5. Presently Malaysia and the Phillipines refuse to allow their women to work as maids in KSA.

They hire them as maids and then the males in the house rape and sexually assault the young girls. They confiscate their passports when they arrive and won't let them leave. A Saudi was just resentenced in Colorado for trying this here in the U.S. The abuse of their basic human rights results in some violence by the victims towards their oppressors. Two such women recently were convicted of killing their "owners" in KSA. One was recently executed by beheading in the main square in Riyadh and the other was spared when blood money had been paid.

KSA is really stuck in the middle ages.