Women sentenced to jail, lashes

By ARAB NEWS

MAKKAH: A Makkah court sentenced three women of Asian nationality to a year in jail and 150 lashes, Madinah daily reported. The women were arrested during a police raid on a prostitution den in Makkah.

The women will serve their jail sentence before they are deported.

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MOSAIB

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1 year jail sentence is ridiculously lenient punishment for the crime of practicing prostitute in the holy city of Makkah. If a person living in close proximity of Haram can indulge in such acts blatantly and get away with it with just a year in prison then indeed the day of judgment is very near. People involved in creating fake documents usually get more than 2 years prison time. So what is the message here, that creating fake documents is more serious crime than being a prostitute in Makkah?

SILENT M

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Crazy!
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