Saudi Arabia: Fear of Flogging/ Prisoners of conscience/ Torture and other ill-treatment

Index Number: MDE 23/037/2007
Date Published: 23 October 2007
Categories: Middle East And North Africa, Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International has received reports that two men have been sentenced by a court in al-Baha in south-western Saudi Arabia to 7,000 lashes each for sexual intercourse. A third man was said to have been sentenced to 450 lashes for drug related offences by the same court.