Riyadh: Four Saudi students have been acquitted of sexually assaulting two female American students at the Johnson and Wales University.
Providence District Court dropped the charges levelled against the Saudi students in the absence of compelling evidence corroborating the first degree sexual assault claims, reported Arabic daily Sabq.
Rhode Island Attorney charged Mohammed Aljohani, 20, Tareq Al-Harbi, 22 and Mohammed Alsaqer, 20, with raping an 18-year-old woman at their residence in Pawtucket after meeting the women at a nightclub in Providence.
23-year-old Yazeed Alasiri was also charged with second-degree sexual assault on an 18-year-old student who claimed that the Saudi student groped her.
The women said they met two of the men at the Colosseum nightclub on Pine Street in Providence and accompanied them to an apartment, claiming that they were drugged and sexually assaulted.
The Johnson and Wales University Saudi students were held without bail until their acquittal.
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