A man convicted of raping his daughter has been sentenced by a Saudi court to receive 2,080 lashes over a 13-year prison term.

A SAUDI court convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall, a government-owned daily reported.

A leading international human rights group appealed to Saudi King Abdullah today to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft.

A SAUDI court has sentenced a woman who had been gang raped to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than doubling her initial penalty for being in the car of a man who was not a relative.