Publication Date:
Mon, 2006-07-17 03:00
JIZAN, 17 July 2006 — A court in Beesh in Jizan province sentenced a Saudi youth to four years in jail and 2,000 lashes for assaulting his parents. The youth was arrested following a complaint filed by his father.
The father told the police that his son had beaten up his mother following an argument between the youth’s wife and the mother. When the father intervened to save the mother, the son turned on the father and assaulted him as well. The youth will be given 400 lashes at a time, Al-Madinah newspaper reported.
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