| Damt [Yemen] Primary Court yesterday sentenced 4 hotels proprietors, involved in showing pornographic films through coded channels, to 5 months in Jail. It also ordered the immediate closing down of such hotels for also five months and the confiscation of the satellite dishes. Judge Al-durafi had already sentenced a person to death for committing highway robbery and for being found tipsy in a Damat hotel, but later softened the sentence to Tazeer " public penalty according to which the culprit is flogged around 80 stripes". The masses in Damt expressed satisfactions in enforcing Shariah law, particularly after indignation at the spread of spiritual drinks sales and coded channels ran high. They also expressed thankfulness to the prosecution and security apparatuses for performing their duties to eradicate vice from society . |