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Human rights campaigners are outraged at a video that has surfaced from Saudi Arabia of an Asian man being severely beaten by a Saudi man, allegedly for looking at his wife.

The footage shows the Asian worker, wearing an orange overall, sitting opposite the Saudi man dressed in white robes.

The Asian man has a swollen eye and is repeatedly slapped and hit in the face by the other man.

The Saudi man then starts to repeatedly whip the Asian man with his belt. The victim falls to the floor crying out in pain, where he is kicked and whipped over and over.

When he gets to his feet, the Saudi man appears to grab him by the throat and forces him up against the wall before continuing to beat him.

The whole attack, which takes place in a room with a table, chairs and a playing TV, is filmed by a third party and has been shared online.

The shocking footage has prompted Saudi Arabia' Human Rights Commission to condemn the attack after it received numerous complaints.

Spokesperson Ibrahim al-Shadi told Al Arabiya the beating was a 'flagrant violation of the victim’s rights to safety and dignity.

The act also flouted rules set by Islamic Sharia, he said.

The National Society for Human Rights is 'investigating the issue,' its head Mefleh al-Qahtani told AFP, quoted in the Times of India.

The semi-governmental organisation would demand the perpetrator be punished if the case is confirmed.

'We do not have enough details about the identity of the man, or on where the incident took place,' he said.