Manama: A Bahraini university student who challenged a judge about the right to have sex with her boyfriend in a car park was sentenced to three months in jail.
"What my friend and I were doing is part of our individual freedom. This is a democratic and free country," the student, who is above the age of 21, told the judge sentencing her. Police said they found the girl and her boyfriend in "an intimate position" in a car park.
"We are free and we have the right to do what we were doing, especially since he had promised to marry me," the girl said in her defence. But the judge was not impressed. "This is an Islamic country and we all have to comply with the rules," he told her. "You should appreciate that our laws are different from those in the West," he said.
The judge also refused a plea by the girl's attorney not to sentence her because of her age and status as a university student.
