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29 March 2024

Couple to be lashed for beating child

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A Saudi man and his wife will be flogged 30 times after a court found them guilty of beating his five-year-old son.

The court also gave them a suspended one year prison sentence provided they memorise parts of the Holy Quran in one year.

“Police investigation showed the child was beaten by his step mother and taken to hospital by his uncle,” Ajel daily said in a report from the southern Saudi town of Najran, adding that the boy’s mother had been divorced from his father.