Yemeni gets 15 year prison sentence after taking picture inside Mecca

RIYADH, Aug. 26 (YPA) – The Saudi authorities issued a 15-year prison sentence against a Yemeni young man on charges of taking a picture in front of the vicinity of the Mecca.

Sources close to the arrested man, Amr Sadiq Zaher, said that one of his friends asked to take pictures of him on his Facebook account in front of the Mecca, but the account’s profile showed a picture of the Yemeni leader, Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi.

According to some sources, one of the guards inside Mecca saw the young man, Zaher, taking a picture, and arrested him.

Last week, he received a 15 year prison sentence from one of Saudi courts.

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