Jail and flogging for power-cuts protest

 

I haven't seen this reported anywhere in English, but an Arabic website says a prominent journalist in al-Qassim region of Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to two months in jail, plus 50 lashes, for "inciting" people to protest about power cuts outside an electricity company. The website does not name the journalist concerned.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 31 October 2010.

UPDATE, 3 November: Here is a report in English. The journalist's name is Fahd al-Jukhaidib.