A Saudi court sentenced an African man to four years in
prison and ordered him lashed 1,000 after he was convicted
of pretending to be a pilgrim to harass women at the Grand
Mosque in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported on
Thursday.
After reading the sentence, the judge at the court in the
Western town of Makkah told the defendant he could not
appeal on the grounds what he had done “is a very serious
crime and a violation of the sacred mosque.”
Guards the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Islam’s holiest
shrine, arrested the man after they saw him on security
cameras coming too close to female pilgrims and touching
them. They also found that he was wearing normal clothes
under Ihram dress (white ritual uniform), proving he was at
the mosque for harassing women.
“He confessed to the crime after he was faced with a film
caught by security cameras inside the Grand Mosque,”
Alwatan daily said.
Source:arabnews
prison and ordered him lashed 1,000 after he was convicted
of pretending to be a pilgrim to harass women at the Grand
Mosque in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported on
Thursday.
After reading the sentence, the judge at the court in the
Western town of Makkah told the defendant he could not
appeal on the grounds what he had done “is a very serious
crime and a violation of the sacred mosque.”
Guards the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Islam’s holiest
shrine, arrested the man after they saw him on security
cameras coming too close to female pilgrims and touching
them. They also found that he was wearing normal clothes
under Ihram dress (white ritual uniform), proving he was at
the mosque for harassing women.
“He confessed to the crime after he was faced with a film
caught by security cameras inside the Grand Mosque,”
Alwatan daily said.
Source:arabnews
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