Flogging ordered for Saudi teen

A TEENAGE girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said yesterday.

Human rights group Amnesty International said the assault happened after the girl was caught with a camera phone at school.

The teenager’s name was not immediately available. She could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah, said Judge Riyadh al-Meihdib.