Extortionist Of 100-girls To Get 800 Lashes At 'Female' Malls In Saudi Arabia

A Saudi judge sentenced a local man to eight years in prison and ordered him lashed 800 times inside shopping malls visited mostly by women after he found him guilty of balckmailing nearly 100 girls, reported a newspaper. The judge infuriated by man's confession that he extoted money from those women through their photographs, also fined him SR 80,000. The unnamed defendant, in his 30's confessed that he used pictures he got from girls and married women from facebook to threaten them to give him money or he would publicize them, OKaz Arabic language paper said. It quoted police as saying that they found a large number of pictures of those girls in man's mobile phones and laptops and ythat he confessed to using them to extort money. The judge sentenced him to eight years in prison and ordered him lashed 800 times in four baiches at different shopping malls mostly visied by women.