A prince of Saudi Arabia’s ruling al-Saud family was given lashes in a prison in Jeddah as a court-ordered punishment, a Saudi newspaper said on Wednesday, less than a month after the kingdom executed another prince for murder. Some Saudi social media users said it showed Islamic law did not differentiate between a prince and ordinary Saudis. A Saudi prince, Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, was executed in Riyadh on Oct. 18 after a court found him guilty of shooting dead a fellow Saudi, official media reported, in what Saudis said was the first execution of a prince since the 1970s. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir had pleaded guilty to shooting Adel al-Mohaimeed after a brawl, the ministry of interior said. Saudi social media users interpreted the rare execution of a prince as a sign of equality under Islamic law.

Source: The Hindu November 02, 2016 20:35 UTC