Man gets five years jail, 500 lashes for adultery

A Saudi court has sentenced a local man for five years in prison and ordered him lashed 500 times in public on charges of having an illegitimate relationship with a married woman, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The unnamed man met the 18-year-old Saudi woman at a wedding in the central town of Buraidah and took her to the capital Riyadh, where he rented an apartment for their relationship, Kabar Arabic language daily said.

Police tracking the woman’s mobile phone calls at a request by her husband and relatives located the apartment and seized the couple, it said.

“The judge said he issued a tough sentence against the man because what he has done amounted to ruining a household and marriage…he also duped the woman, frightened her family and brought shame on them,” the paper said without mentioning whether the woman has also been sentenced for adultery.

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