Woman jailed, to be lashed on vice charges

A Saudi court sentenced a Moroccan woman to four months in prison and ordered her  lashed 50 times with the whip after she was found guilty of involvement in vice through social networks, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The divorced woman had contacted a Saudi man through WhatsApp asking him to come to her apartment in the western town of Taif and sleep with her for Sh500 (Dh500), the Arabic language daily Sabq said.

Instead of going to the woman, the man went straight to the police, who asked him to call her and pretend that he accepts her offer.

“She later got into his car after receiving the money from him…police suddenly surrounded them and arrested her,” Sabq said.

It said the court also confiscated her mobile which was loaded with “obscene” pictures and ordered her deportation after completing her jail term.

45-year-old Saudi woman drowns in water tank
 
A 45-year-old Saudi woman died after drowning in a large water tank at her house in the Gulf kingdom, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The woman struggled to get out of the tank but could not as she cannot swim, Sabq said, adding that her children called the police and the civil defence.

“Civil defence men pulled the woman out…she was still alive but died on the way to hospital after swallowing a large quantity of water,” the paper said in a report from the southern Saudi town of Baha.

The report did not mention how the woman fell into the tank.
 
 

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