A 40-year-old Saudi man is to be lashed 80 times with the whip after he was convicted of defaming his wife’s sister, Al Riyadh newspaper said on Saturday. The unidentified man from the western port of Qatif printed leaflets containing obscene words about his wife’s sister and distributed them to drivers, it said. “The man also stuck one paper on the car of the fiancé of his wife’s sister… he was later arrested,” the paper said. “He repented his act and asked for pardon. But his wife’s sister refused to pardon him, so the court sentenced him to 80 lashes,” the paper added, without mentioning the reasons for the man’s behaviour.