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Date: February 5, 2007 12:55:26 PM PST
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Subject: West Meets Middle East
Updated:2007-02-05 07:48:02
Foreigners Face Saudi
Lashing for Party
AP
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Feb. 4) - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20
foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison
after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served
and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women,
arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party
in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not
identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the
party took place.
Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to
four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of
lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.
The prosecutor general charged the 20 with "drinking, arranging for
impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party,"
Okaz said.
The paper said the rest of those arrested were awaiting trial.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which
it bans alcohol and meetings between unrelated men and women.
The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for
interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers
roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking
for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling, men
skipping Islam's five daily prayers and women with strands of hair
showing from under their veil.
In May, the Interior Ministry restricted the powers of the
religious police to just arresting suspects, because the police
sometimes had held people incommunicado and insisted on taking part
in ensuing investigations.
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