- JEDDAH: In what is described as an unprecedented occurrence, two young men arrived at a local court in Jeddah, pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol and then asked the court to lash them for their wrongdoing, Al-Madinah newspaper reported.
Court officials tried to convince the young men to leave by telling them that it was enough that they had repented. They, however, refused and so a judge sentenced them to 80 lashes in public. The men expressed their satisfaction at the verdict.
