by user Towncommons In Saudi Arabia, a woman is a prisoner in her own house, unable even to leave unless accompanied by a male family member. The punishent for leaving the house without a male family member is jail or flogging. In Iran, just this month, 33 women who held a protest for women's rights [1] were arrested and jailed. Further, women in Iran and the tribal areas of Pakistan who are suspected of adultery or prostitution face death by stoning. The muslim government of the Sudan has allowed, if not actively employed, muslim miltias to systematically rape and murder black African women in Darfur.