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28 March 2024

Lawyer jailed, whipped for abusing solicitor

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A Saudi court sentenced a local lawyer to one month in prison and ordered him to be lashed 130 times after he was found guilty of racially abusing a colleague inside the court house, a newspaper in the Gulf kingdom reported on Thursday.

The plaintiff accused the lawyer of making 'racist' charges against him after the end of a court session in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah, Sada said.

"The court found the lawyer guilty of racially insulting his colleague. It sentenced him to one month in prison and ordered him lashed 130 times in two batches," said the report.