A Saudi court has sentenced four men to up
to 10 years in prison and 2000 lashes for
dancing unclad in public, media reported on
Thursday. In a video posted on YouTube, several men
appear dancing atop a vehicle in the ultra-
conservative province of Qassim. None seemed unclad. The court in Buraydah, Qassim’s provincial
capital, sentenced one defendant to 10
years in prison and 2000 lashes, and
another to seven years in prison and 1200
lashes, Al-Sharq newspaper reported in
what media have dubbed the “n*ked dancing” case. Their two companions were jailed for three
years and sentenced to 500 lashes each, it
said. The four were charged with “dancing on a
vehicle in public and posting a video online,
encouraging vice, defying norms of the
society and violating public morals,”
according to Al-Sharq. Two of them were identified as security
officials. Saudi Arabia applies a strict version of
Islamic shariah law that imposes many
social restrictions and bans public
entertainment.
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