Hospital official sentenced to jail and lashes
By Majed Al-Bassam, Arab News Staff

ABHA, 3 October — The Court of Cassation in Riyadh has sentenced a senior government hospital employee for two months in jail and 120 lashes for taking women to the hospital’s X-ray department and being alone with them.

The man was working as director of the X-ray department at Dawadmi General Hospital, 355 km west of Riyadh. Men being alone with other women is against Shariah and a violation of Health Ministry rules.

The Riyadh court was overruling a verdict issued by a lower court in Arja, near Dawadmi, which had sentenced the man to five days jail and 50 lashes.

The court in Arja had also taken an undertaking from the employee, who was working at the hospital for eight years, that he would not repeat the offense.

An informed source told Arab News that the defendant raised objection to the verdict, claiming he was well known in society for his good behavior and trustworthiness.

He produced letters of good conduct from the hospital’s director and administrative manager to prove his claim.

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