CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The controversial public punishment method is to be replaced with fines, jail times and community service. The Saudi courts had previously ordered such public whipping of convicts for offences ranging from breach of peace to murder.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a form of punishment, the country’s supreme court has announced. The court said on Saturday that the “human rights advances” are part of reforms pushed by King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz and his son, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).

Detailed explanation-3: -Naval Digest, 1916, states: “Flogging was abolished by the Act of September 28, 1860.” Some authors have stated that flogging was “abolished forever in 1852, ” or “continued until 1862.” A well-known legal dictionary states it was 1872.

Detailed explanation-4: -Floggings tended to be done with a wooden cane, the swift blows going up and down the backside of the sentenced person. In the past, they were often carried out in public, adding a social stigma to the physical pain inflicted.

Detailed explanation-5: -Iran’s persistent use of cruel and inhuman punishments, including floggings, amputations and forced blinding over the past year, exposes the authorities’ utterly brutal sense of justice, said Amnesty International. Hundreds are routinely flogged in Iran each year, sometimes in public.