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Woman To Be Flogged 50 Lashes For Insulting Police In Saudi Arabia

The woman was sentenced after she was found guilty of “cursing the morality police” and calling them “liars”

A judge in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a businesswoman to spend a month in prison and also receive 50 lashes for insulting members of the morality police during an argument.

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According to the kingdom’s local newspaper, al-Medina, incidents of heavy-handed behaviour by the morality police have come under growing criticism on social media from inside the kingdom in recent years, straining relations between Saudi citizens and the official body.

The businesswoman was sentenced after she was found guilty of “cursing the morality police” and calling them “liars”. However, the appeal court in Mecca upheld the sentence passed by the district court in Jedda.

It said the patrol had entered her café to check there were no breaches of morality or other laws in the conservative Muslim kingdom, and that some of her employees had then run away because they were breaking immigration rules.

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