Two traffickers were each sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for smuggling a large amount of drugs from Yemen.
The General Court in the Governorate of Al-Laith ordered the convicts to be flogged each 4,000 times and banned them from travelling abroad for a similar period on serving their jail terms.
The convicts were found guilty of receiving 320 kg of cannabis smuggled from Yemen by sea and hiding the drugs in a dilapidated house in the Governorate of Al-Laith.
Anti-narcotics officers were monitoring the operation, in coordination with the border patrol.
They arrested the smugglers red-handed while they were handing over the drugs to another trafficker who would then sell them.
The court also issued an order seeking the assistance of the Interpol to track down a third trafficker, who sent the drug from Yemen by sea.