A lower court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to two months in prison and 90 lashes after he was found guilty of blackmailing a woman. The woman reported the young man to the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for help. In cooperation with authorities, the man was arrested and tried. The Court of Cassations, however, sent back to the lower court its earlier ruling of six months and 200 lashes for the young man in order for it to be reviewed for lesser punishment. The Commission had earlier advised women vulnerable to the threat of blackmail to report their cases for help. Blackmail cases usually involve threats of going public with a woman's private information and photos. – Okaz __