Ninety lashes for man caught kissing woman in Saudi mall

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.

Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after seeing them on mall cameras “engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers”, the Al-Yom newspaper said.

The man, who is in his 20s, was seen with a woman “sitting on one of the chairs, exchanging kisses and hugs”. It was unclear what the other woman was doing. Neither the man nor the women were identified by name.