Man gets three years for 'online affair'

A Saudi court sentenced a Palestinian man to three years in prison and ordered him lashed 360 times for having an online affair with a married woman and trying to blackmail her, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The unnamed salesman at a female accessories shop in the eastern port of Dammam had persuaded the woman to e mail him her photographs following several visits to his shop, Sabq Arabic language daily said.

“He started to send her love messages by e mail…he then threatened to send the photographs to her husband unless she makes love with him.”

The paper said the woman later reported the man, in his 30s, to members of the feared Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who arrested him after finding her pictures in his laptop.

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