A Saudi court has sentenced four men to up to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for dancing “naked” in public, media reported on Thursday.
In a video posted on YouTube, several men appear dancing atop a vehicle in the ultra-conservative province of Qassim. None seemed naked.
The court in Buraydah, Qassim’s provincial capital, sentenced one defendant to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes, and another to seven years in prison and 1,200 lashes, Al-Sharq newspaper reported in what media have dubbed the “naked dancing” case.
Their two companions were jailed for three years and sentenced to 500 lashes each, it said.
The four were charged with “dancing on a vehicle in public and posting a video online, encouraging vice, defying norms of the society and violating public morals,” according to Al-Sharq.
Two of them were identified as security officials.
Saudi Arabia applies a strict version of Islamic shariah law that imposes many social restrictions and bans public entertainment
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Na wa!

Barbaric law all in the name of Shariah.

Hezron Lorraine: Barbaric law all in the name of Shariah.

the law is never barbaric cos they know the law of the land

dridowu: the law is never barbaric cos they know the law of the land

the law is barbaric,also the arrested men also knew the consequences of their actions.They'll dance to the tune of justice in a more barbaric way and not the modest dispensation of justice as observed in other parts of the world.