Sydney grandfather Peter Mutty jailed, whipped in Saudi Arabia for having home brewed

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Sydney grandfather Peter Mutty jailed, whipped in Saudi Arabia for having home brewed alcohol

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A SYDNEY grandfather jailed alongside murderers and given the lash after being caught with home brewed alcohol in Saudi Arabia has now been told he cannot leave the country.

Peter Mutty, 57, from Rosebery in Sydney’s inner south, has now been forced to sell his home to cover costs while he remains trapped in limbo in the Gulf state unable to work.

“The Australian Embassy has been absolutely no help and did not even come to see me until I had been in jail for five weeks,” Mr Mutty said yesterday.

Mr Mutty was working in Al Khobar, four hours outside the capital Riyadh, when he was caught with two cartons of home brewed light beer and two cases of homemade red and white wine in his car.

“I knew it was wrong and I made no attempt to hide the fact I was guilty,” said Mr Mutty, who has daughters and grandchildren in Canberra and Adelaide.

Other expats who have been caught with alcohol have been expelled from Saudi Arabia within 48 hours, but Mr Mutty received six months in the notorious Thuqba prison.

“It was terrible, it was everything you imagine it would be. I was held with rapists, murderers and killers,” Mr Mutty said.

Despite reassurance from Australian Embassy officials he would not receive the lash, the engineering company manager was stood against a wall and given 28 strokes of the cane before being released on March 19 this year.

“But because my case has not been finalised I am trapped in Saudi Arabia. I cannot work and I cannot leave,” Mr Mutty said.

“I am trapped in limbo and have not earned a brass razoo in six months. We have had to make some pretty rapid decisions and sell one of our two properties to pay the bills,” he said.

He visited the Australian Embassy in Riyadh yesterday in a bid to get his case expedited. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is understood to be providing consular assistance to an Australian in Saudi Arabia but it could make no official comment on the case.

The last Australian known to receive the lash in Saudi Arabia was Victorian man Mansor Almaribe, who received 75 lashes for blasphemy in 2012 before being released from prison and flown home to Australia with a royal pardon.

A spokeswoman for human rights group Amnesty International said floggings and amputations were common in the Saudi justice system. But the organisation could offer little support to people caught up in the system.

ROUGH JUSTICE IN SAUDI ARABIA

* Punishments usually consist of 80 to 100 lashes, often administered as weekly bouts of 50 lashes at a time, 20-30 lashes at a time for women

* Usually applied to the back, but a victim’s legs and buttocks can also be caned

* Most lashes ever given in Saudi Arabia was in 2007 when two men were given 7000 strokes each as punishment for sodomy

* Often held in the same public squares as executions

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...e-brewed-alcohol/story-fni0cx12-1227302460865
 
kinda reminds me of the bible, these canings

having home brew alcohol in saudi is like meth in america though, i am with foolsgold though i cant see a good reason to visit hardcore religious countries
 
My buddy who worked there for a few years said the underground booze market for expats was flourishing. The way he described it I thought it would be a fine or something. Getting whipped is savage. I wonder how long until they start cutting off your drinking hand?

"Most lashes ever given in Saudi Arabia was in 2007 when two men were given 7000 strokes each as punishment for sodomy"

Fucking savages.
 
Crankinit said:
He was working there. Brewing alcohol is pretty fucking stupid though.
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While you could easily make the point that it is generally unwise to consume alcohol in a country like Saudi Arabia, and even more so to transport it, I would think that small scale home brewing for consumption within the home is the smartest and safest way to acquire and consume alcohol in such a place.

I would say his mistake was transporting alcohol, not brewing it.
 
First off, I just wanna say that this is obviously unjust. AFAIK, the man was not being belligerent in public, and I doubt that would have changed.

Yes, it's their country, their rules, and if we go there, we should respect them - however stupid that they are. But is the proper response towards a foreigner for breaking these specific rules to punish him in the manner which he has been since caught? I think not, and I strongly believe Saudi law enforcement went way too far here. They're assholes for being so extreme - I figuratively spit on their door handles - bad Saudis!

Anyways, I can't help but mention that this story reminds me of what has been happening for decades to non-violent, otherwise law abiding Americans who were caught in possession of Cannabis, MDMA, or another 'street drug.' Allow me to explain.

The mainstream media may not be informing the American public about what can happen to someone in such a scenario, yet it obviously still happens on a disturbingly frequent basis. And other than the drug in question, it's not so different from what this Australian man has endured, such as:

- Asset Forfeiture: Americans caught in possession of 'street drugs' regularly have their property seized by the police for good.
- Jail and/or Prison time: American drug users are typically thrown in the slammer amongst rapists, murderers, and pedophiles, when they did not victimize anyone.
- Mandatory Minimums: Unfair felony convictions are still the norm in most states in the U.S. when it comes to repeat non-violent offenders - regardless of the fact that their drugs were meant for personal use, and not trafficking/dealing.
- Discrimination: The American public will typically treat such an offender starkly different when compared to a violent drunk who can't stop drinking.
- Government Sponsored Baggage: These non-violent offenders can no longer vote, nor apply for a student loan (among other things), simply because of a plant in their pockets meant for personal consumption.
- A Violation of Constitutional Rights: 'Stop 'n Frisk' is rampant in most major urban areas in the U.S. as well as a quota system which basically rewards cops for making more arrests.
- A Ruined Family: The war on drugs has done far more harm to 'street drug' users and their families than the drugs themselves ever would have.
- No Proper Medical Attention (If Any at All): The 'street drug' user has probably resorted to using his or her drug(s) of choice as a coping mechanism due to an underlying issue. This is rarely considered, and as a result, recidivism is very common.

Poor guy. Unless I missed something, he totally didn't deserve this much punishment. So many unjust, uncivilized, irrational man-made laws still remaining in the world. They have ruined countless lives for no good reason, yet are paid little to no attention. That needs to change - badly.
 
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It's not like these laws and their respective punishments are not widely known. If anything being a foreigner he was actually treated more leniently than if he was a local Muslim.
 
The only reason why that turd hill of a country hasn't had the shit bombed out of it is because of its oil power. That's it. Their day will come and their backward degenerate royal family will get what's coming to them.

The guy was an idiot for brewing alcohol though. What is it with Australians and their inability to abstain even in the most necessary conditions? Every story we see about ex pats being put in jail for violating drug laws are Ozzies.
 
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