Looks like Ms. Rosana Al-Yami won't feel the sting of the lash after all. --->
Saudi Arabia's king has pardoned a female journalist sentenced to 60 lashes for her role in a television show in which a Saudi man detailed his sexual exploits. A government official announced the pardon of Rosana Al-Yami, who had been charged with helping to produce the controversial programme, on Monday.
"In this case, the flogging has been dropped," Abdul-Rahman al-Hazzaa, an information ministry spokesman, said. He said that the case of al-Yami and another journalist would be transfered to a ministry committee for possible disciplinary action.
Al-Yami told the Reuters news agency: "The king has vindicated me. I am satisfied with the king's order and I accept the decisions of the sovereign."
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