Saudi paper: Authorities crack down on 21 alleged homosexuals
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Saudi newspaper says religious police have arrested 21 alleged homosexual men and confiscated large amounts of alcohol at the same location.
Al-Medina daily says the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which employs the religious police, was told Friday of a large gathering of young men at a rest house in Qatif, in eastern Saudi Arabia.
The paper says scores of men were initially arrested but only 21 remain in detention.
Homosexuality is seen as a sin in Islam and prohibited in Saudi Arabia and most other Muslim nations. In the conservative kingdom, the offense can be punished by flogging or prison.
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