Saudi Arabia flogged 12 teenage boys in public for...

Saudi Arabia flogged 12 teenage boys in public for harassing women, Saudi media reported.
The youths were given 15 lashes each for "flirting and bothering families" at a park designated for families in the conservative Muslim kingdom, al-Eqtisadiah newspaper said.
Police flogged the youths immediately after catching them in the park in the resort of Taif. The boys had entered the enclosure by scaling the walls.
Saudi Arabia's strict implementation of Islamic sharia law bans unrelated men and women from mixing before marriage. The paper did not make clear when the floggings happened.
Other punishments in the kingdom include stoning for adultery and flogging for relatively minor crimes including alcohol consumption.