Sharia law carried out in Saudi Arabia, as two men receive the first set of 7,000 lashings for sodomy:
“The men, who were not identified, were meted out an unspecified number of lashes in public in the the southwestern city of Al-Bahah on Tuesday evening, the Al-Okaz daily reported. They were then returned to prison where they are to be held until the full punishment is completed, the newspaper added, without saying how many sessions this would involve.”