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| Saudi court upholds jail, lashes for Egyptian lawyer |
| 2013-12-21 |
| [Al Ahram] A Saudi appeals court has upheld jail and lashes for an Egyptian lawyer whose arrest on drug trafficking charges last year sparked a row with Cairo, a newspaper said Thursday. The five-year sentence and 300 lashes meted out by a Jeddah court against Ahmed al-Gizawi are now final, Okaz daily said, adding that the execution of the lashing sentence will begin "within a month." The lashes are implemented at the rate of 50 per month. |
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