Saudi Gazette report

MAKKAH — A judge at Makkah summary court has sentenced a young Saudi man in his 20s to lashes and community service after he was found in illegal seclusion (khulwa) with a girl.



The young man will be working at the Cooperation Office for New Muslims in Makkah’s Al-Awali District for three hours, three days a week, Al-Watan Arabic newspaper said.



Makkah Police spokesman Lt. Col. Abdulmohsen Al-Maiman did not identify the young man but said he was asked to bring evidence to the police from the office that he was regularly doing his community service. He was also sentenced to 150 lashes, to be applied in three equal batches.



Al-Maiman said the man was caught in khulwa by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a), which handed him over to the police and returned the girl to her family.