{"id":39728,"date":"2013-10-04T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=39728"},"modified":"2013-10-04T20:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T16:32:14","slug":"saudi-court-jails-four-young-men-for-up-to-ten-years-and-sentences-them-to-thousands-of-lashes-for-naked-dance-on-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=39728","title":{"rendered":"Saudi court jails four young men for up to TEN YEARS and sentences them to thousands of lashes for naked dance on car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Riyadh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39725\" alt=\"Riyadh\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Riyadh.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Riyadh.jpg 468w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Riyadh-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Riyadh-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Saudi Arabian man has been jailed for 10 years and sentenced to 2,000 lashes after a film of him dancing naked on the roof of a car was posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Another man, who is believed to have made the film, received seven years in prison and 1,200 lashes.<\/p>\n<p>Two others were jailed for three years and sentenced to 500 lashes each.<\/p>\n<p>The public prosecutor in the case reportedly objected to what he described as &#8216;light sentences&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The four men men were charged with &#8216;dancing on a vehicle in public&#8217; and &#8216;violating public morals&#8217;, following the incident in Borayda, the capital of al-Qasseem province, north-west of the capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>A video of the incident was posted online, media reports say. It is not clear whether the men were caught in the act or traced by the video.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qasseem province is notoriously conservative and religious police there are said to be the most strict in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The law prohibits the playing of music, dancing and many movies also are a concern for hard-liners who believe they violate religious and moral values.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Saudi Arabian man has been jailed for 10 years and sentenced to 2,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[2499],"class_list":["post-39728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-saudi","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}