“This is the news I have been waiting for for days,” she told Dutch national broadcaster NOS, according to the Guardian. “I haven’t slept for nights, but I’m very happy.”The sentence could easily have been much stiffer, a Qatari court official told Al Jazeera. The man Laura accused was also arrested, but on adultery and public drunkenness charges, not rape. I can’t believe it,” she told Dutch news program EenVandaag, according to Al Jazeera. She received a one-year suspended prison sentence and will likely be deported back to the Netherlands later this week, Yvette Van Eechoud, the Dutch Ambassador to Qatar, told Al Jazeera after the hearing.

Source: National Post June 14, 2016 12:22 UTC