According to a legal document obtained by media outlets, flogging will be abolished in Saudi Arabia.
The Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ordered that the whipping in the country be commuted to imprisonment and fines.
According to the document, the move is part of a series of human rights reforms in the country by Shah Salman and his son, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.
Saudi Arabia has been criticized for killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and imprisoning dissidents.
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The last flogging sentence in Saudi Arabia made headlines in 2015 when a blogger, Reef Badawi, was publicly flogged for cybercrime and blasphemy.
According to the sentence, he was to be given a thousand lashes during the weekly beating, but due to international outrage and his condition deteriorating during the lashing sentence, the full execution of his sentence had to be stopped.
The BBC's Sebastian Osher, the editor of Arab Affairs, says the whipping certainly painted a negative image of Saudi Arabia on the world stage.
However, the action suggests that the sentence will now be abolished altogether.
However, according to our correspondent, under the umbrella of the Shah Sultanate and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, all kinds of dissenting groups, including women's rights activists, have been arrested, and these groups have denied the allegations. What is it.
Earlier on Friday, Abdullah al-Hamid, a prominent Saudi human rights activist from Saudi Arabia, died in a Saudi prison.
Saudi human rights activists say he fell ill two weeks ago, but Saudi officials did not provide him with adequate medical treatment during his illness.
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