Fourteen partygoers – 11 your men and four young women – have been sentenced to jail and flogging in Saudi Arabia for gender mixing, Arab News reports.

The paper quotes a source as saying: "All arrangements had been completed for the party and they had brought liquor. But the intervention of commission [religious police] officials turned their plans upside down. Although the culprits tried to run away from the site, security officers were able to track them down."

The men were jailed for two years. Two women were jailed for one year and two others sentenced to 80 lashes each.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 23 June 2010.