Early this month a Sudanese man was on a flight to the Red Sea port of Jeddah from Qurayyat in northern Saudi Arabia and apparently ignored the flight crew when they had asked him to simply ash out his cigarette. He was arrested right as soon as the flight landed and his punishment...thirty lashings from a whip! Wearing just a shirt he will be struck by a police officer holding a book under his arm (to prevent a lot of force from being used) with a whip similar to the one attached to this pos.:
The man tried to bargain his way out by saying he would go to rehab center for his smoking but no luck. The judge was set on making an example of the man, now this isn't the first time this has happened. Another man while smoking on a flight set off a smoke alarm and was sentenced to fifty lashes. Personally I thought these kind's of unusual and inhumane punishments were banned. Guess not.
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The man tried to bargain his way out by saying he would go to rehab center for his smoking but no luck. The judge was set on making an example of the man, now this isn't the first time this has happened. Another man while smoking on a flight set off a smoke alarm and was sentenced to fifty lashes. Personally I thought these kind's of unusual and inhumane punishments were banned. Guess not.
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