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Taken From
Saudi Gazette
8.11.2010
JEDDAH: A
27-year-old Saudi man was sentenced to five years in prison, 500
lashes of the whip, and a SR50,000 fine after appearing in a
recent amateur gay video online allegedly taken inside a Jeddah
prison.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Shathri, judge of the District Court in
Jeddah, handed down the verdict for crimes including
homosexuality, imitating women, and possessing pornographic video
clips.
The penalty comes after the spread of the video clip on the
Internet allegedly sent via Bluetooth from inside the Briman
prison, showing the man imitating a woman and turning into an
explicit talk about sex.
The Prison Administration has, however, denied that the short clip
was filmed there.
The man had earlier impersonated a security officer and several
verdicts were issued against him – the most prominent of which are
homosexuality, imitating women, and possessing pornographic clips
that show the man wearing women’s underwear and in compromising
poses.
A source said, “The District Court sentenced the accused in a
homosexuality case that was referred to it by the Commission for
the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a) in
Jeddah before he was tried for impersonating a security man and
behaving shamefully and with conduct violating the Islamic
teachings.”
The case started when the Hai’a’s staff arrested the man under
charges of practicing homosexuality. He was referred to the Bureau
for In
vestigation
and Prosecution, which referred him to the District Court.
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