by Rex Wockner
International News Briefs
A 27-year-old man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was sent to jail for a year, fined $1,330, and will be lashed 1,000 times for appearing in a gay-themed video.
Ahmad al-Faqih was charged with impersonating a police officer, being a homosexual and committing a general security offense.
The amateur, three-minute production shows al-Faqih dressed as a cop, asking for someone's driver's license and demanding "physical comfort" to let the driver go free. He opens his shirt, plays with his chest and dances around suggestively to club music while holding a gun.
The video reportedly raced around Saudi Arabia via the Internet and cell phones. See it at http://www.tinyurl.com/saudivid.
