Man jailed 3 years in Saudi for offering himself 'online'

A Saudi court sentenced a 24-year-old man to three years in prison and ordered him lashed 450 times after he was convicted of offering himself to other men through his Twitter page, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police, tracked the unnamed man through his Twitter account and arrested him, Arar Arabic language daily said.

A Commission member, posing as a customer, contacted the man and agreed to meet him at his home, the paper said.

“When he turned up, Commission members were waiting for him…they arrested him and found films in his mobile phone showing he is involved in homosexual activities,” the paper said in a report from the western Saudi town of Medina.

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