11 people are sentenced to 300 lashes and prison in Saudi Arabia for having a party

Six women and five men are sentenced to 300 lashes and a year in prison in Saudi Arabia after neighbours reported them for having a party at a beachside villa

Group charged with obscenity after police found drink and indecent images
Officers from country's vice squad called after complaint from neighbours
Women are not allowed to mingle with men in Saudi Arabia unless related


Six women and five men have been jailed and sentenced to 300 lashes after holding a drunken beach party in Saudi Arabia.
The group were charged with 'obscenity' after police found alcohol and indecent pictures during a raid on a villa in the city of Jedda.
Some were drunk and resisted arrest after officers from the vice squad were called to the property following complaints from neighbours.
Under Saudi law, women are not allowed to mingle with men unless they are related.

The group were initially given jail sentences ranging from eight days to a year and 150 lashes, it was reported by Breitbart.
But their prison terms were increased and their flogging sentence raised to 300 lashes after a failed appeal.


Saudi Arabia has some of the strictest Islamic laws in the world.
Drinking is banned and women must cover themselves in public and not mix with the opposite sex.

Last week, the country's morality police reportedly barred women from a Starbucks and told to send 'their driver' to get a coffee for them instead after a 'gender barrier' wall had collapsed.
Signs in Arabic and English were put up on doors to the coffee shop telling women not to enter.
The posters read: 'Please no entry for ladies, only send your drivers to order. Thank you.'
Yesterday it was also reported that a man had been arrested by Saudi Arabia's morality police for wearing a cartoon costume of a woman showing skin.
British grandfather Karl Andree, 74, was also sentenced to 378 lashes for brewing homemade wine.

But he was finally spared after spending more than a year in jail following a public appeal by his family who feared the punishment would kill him.
The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, as it is officially known, is responsible for ensuring Islamic laws like those are not broken in public.
But it has repeatedly been accused of human rights violations.
In 2002, the committee refused to allow female students out of a burning school in the holy city of Mecca because they were not wearing correct head cover.
The decision is thought to have contributed to the high death toll of 15.

Cambridge student found murdered in Cairo 'had his ears sliced off and all of his fingers broken before he was killed by having his neck broken'

Cambridge student found murdered in Cairo 'had his ears sliced off and all of his fingers broken before he was killed by having his neck broken'

Italian Giulo Regeni, 28, was found dead on a highway outside Cairo, Egypt
The Cambridge student was tortured and suffered 'animal-like' violence
His ears were cut off and all his fingers broken during the brutal ordeal
Suffering bruises, cuts and burns, he only died when his neck was broken
It has been claimed Egypt's notorious security services are responsible
Mr Regeni was staying in Cairo to research Egypt's labour organisations


A Cambridge student found murdered in Cairo was killed when his neck was broken after having all of his fingers snapped and his ears sliced off.
Giulio Regeni, 28, was found dead near a highway outside the Egyptian capital, nine days after he was reported missing, having suffered 'inhuman animal-like violence'.
The Italian national, a student of Cambridge's Department of Politics and International Studies, was brutally tortured before his death, autopsies revealed.

Sources close to the investigation told Ansa news agency he was found with his ears chopped off, as well as broken fingers and toes, the International Business Times reported.
However, these injuries are just a handful of the litany of abuses Mr Regeni is said to have suffered.


Autopsies showed he was found with bruises, stabbing cuts, burns from cigarettes and had toenails torn off.
Italian media are now pointing fingers at Egyptian security services, saying the autopsy results show signs of torture which suggests that his killers believed that he was a spy, The Local reports.
The autopsy revealed that Mr Regeni's neck was twisted or struck which broke a vertebra and left him unable to breathe.
Prosecutors from Rome have opened a murder investigation into the death of the doctoral student and ministers are calling for Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to fully cooperate.
Egyptian Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar has responded to the accusations in Italian media, completely rejecting any notion that security forces were involved in the killing of Mr Regeni.
'There are many rumours repeated on pages of newspapers insinuating the security forces might be behind the accident. This is unacceptable. This is not our policy,' he told a news conference.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is under pressure to authorize a state funeral for Mr Regeni, with anger mounting in Italy over Egypt's initial claims that the student had been killed in a road accident.
Mr Regeni, a student of Cambridge's Department of Politics and International Studies, had been in Cairo for just a few months as part of his PhD research into Egyptian labour movements when he disappeared on January 25.

He had left his apartment with a plan to travel by subway to meet a friend in the city, but was never seen again.
A second autopsy in Italy shed further light into Mr Regeni's death with details so shocking that interior minister Angelino Alfano told Sky TV that he struggled to catch his breath after reading the report.
While opening details have been released, analysis of tissue and body fluid, which could help pinpoint or at least narrow the time frame when Mr Regeni died, are expected to take several days.
Mr Alfano said the student had suffered 'something inhuman, animal-like, an unacceptable violence.'
Prosecutor Ahmed Nagi, who leads the investigation team on the case, had previously said 'all of his body, including his face' had bruises, cuts from stabbings and burns from cigarettes, adding that it appeared to have been a 'slow death.'
Italian police were dispatched to Cairo on Saturday and have started working with their Egyptian counterparts on the case.
Mr Alfano said: 'I am convinced that it is in the interest of el-Sissi to work together. No one can bring Giulio back to life, but bringing the truth to the surface will perhaps be able to save more lives.'

He had left his apartment with a plan to travel by subway to meet a friend in the city, but was never seen again.
A second autopsy in Italy shed further light into Mr Regeni's death with details so shocking that interior minister Angelino Alfano told Sky TV that he struggled to catch his breath after reading the report.
While opening details have been released, analysis of tissue and body fluid, which could help pinpoint or at least narrow the time frame when Mr Regeni died, are expected to take several days.
Mr Alfano said the student had suffered 'something inhuman, animal-like, an unacceptable violence.'
Prosecutor Ahmed Nagi, who leads the investigation team on the case, had previously said 'all of his body, including his face' had bruises, cuts from stabbings and burns from cigarettes, adding that it appeared to have been a 'slow death.'
Italian police were dispatched to Cairo on Saturday and have started working with their Egyptian counterparts on the case.
Mr Alfano said: 'I am convinced that it is in the interest of el-Sissi to work together. No one can bring Giulio back to life, but bringing the truth to the surface will perhaps be able to save more lives.'