Saudi in rare flogging of prince: Report
AFP
Saudi Arabia has flogged a prince convicted in a criminal case, a newspaperreported yesterday, two weeks after another was executed for murder in rare punishment of the countrys royalty, reports AFP from Riyadh.
The unnamed prince was lashed along with other convicts in a prison in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Monday, the Okaz daily reported.
It said the prince had been sentenced to flogging and jail without specifying the charges. It was unclear how many lashes he received.
Last month, Saudi authorities executed Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir in a highly unusual case involving one of the thousands of members of the royal family.
He was condemned to death for shooting dead Adel al-Mahemid, a Saudi, during a brawl. Most people put to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword.
Saudi Arabia is one of the worlds most prolific executioners and has a strict Islamic legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
