The Worldwide Religious News website reports today (December 9, 2010) that a court in Badr, Saudi Arabia yesterday sentenced a man to perform prayer calls at a local mosque for one month.
The man had been convicted of covering up details of a theft and was given the sentence as an alternative to the standard Saudi punishment of whipping.
In addition to performing the call to prayer five times a day, the man has been ordered by the court to memorize a section of the Islamic holy book, the Koran.
Saudi Arabia follows sharia -- that is, strict Islamic laws -- which usually uses corporal punishment for criminal offenses.
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