Just what is it like to be lashed? In 1993, Gavin Sherrard-Smith, a computer expert from Cheltenham, received 50 lashes with a bamboo cane in a prison in Qatar. He was accused of breaking an alcohol ban while living in Doha, the capital – something that Mr Sherrard-Smith, now 47, has always denied.
This is his astonishing account of how the brutal punishment was carried out, and how he endured it.
this made me physically nauseas