Saudi Arabia has flogged a prince convicted in a criminal case, two weeks after another was executed for murder in rare punishment of the country’s royalty. The unnamed prince was lashed along with other convicts in a prison in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Monday, the daily newspaper Okaz reported. Most people put to death in Saudi Arabia are beheaded with a sword. Arrested in 2012, Badawi is serving a 10-year jail sentence and has received 50 lashes of a 1,000-lash sentence which caused international outrage. A Saudi court in February commuted a death sentence against Fayadh to eight years in jail, but maintained a punishment of 800 lashes in sessions of 50.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2016 12:22 UTC