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Stick-Wielding Saudi Moral Police In Gloom As Social Restrictions Eased
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.
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Saudi Arabia De-Fangs Religious Police But Plans To Enforce Public "Decency"
Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality policing.
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Saudi Religious Police Return, Just With A Little Less Vengeance
Outside a supermarket in Riyadh, a long-bearded police officer peers at a driver, glances at his female passenger and issues an order: "You should stay away from women."
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Sun, Sand, Religious Police: Holidays In Saudi Arabia May Be Hard Sell
It's the day before the grand opening of Shaden, a luxury desert camp in Saudi Arabia where air-conditioned tents look out on sandstone cliffs. A princely delegation is on its way. But the place isn't quite ready.
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Saudi Orders 'Kinder, Gentler' Religious Police
Saudi Arabia has stripped its frequently criticised religious police of their powers to arrest, urging them to act "kindly and gently" in enforcing Islamic rules.
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Saudi Religious Police Issue Rare Apology for Beating Briton
The Saudi religious police issued a rare apology on Tuesday for the beating by its personnel of a British man residing in the kingdom in a supermarket in the capital Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia police arrest two people over 'free hugs'
Saudi religious police arrested two young men offering a "free hug" to passers-by in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom's capital, local media reported on Thursday.
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Saudi religious police lift ban on women on bikes
A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom's religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational areas.
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Saudi Arabia to curb powers of religious police: Reports
Saudi Arabia will curb the powers of its notorious religious police charged with ensuring compliance with Islamic morality but often accused of abuses, a newspaper report said on Wednesday.
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Chased by Saudi religious police for loud stereo, he died: Report
Saudi authorities arrested four members of the notorious religious police who allegedly caused the death of a man and the injury of his wife and two children in a car chase, local media reported on Monday.
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Watch: Saudi woman confronts religious police over painted nails
A video of a Saudi woman confronting the religious police over breaking modesty rules with her painted nails has gone viral after she posted it on the YouTube, Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
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Stick-Wielding Saudi Moral Police In Gloom As Social Restrictions Eased
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.
-
Saudi Arabia De-Fangs Religious Police But Plans To Enforce Public "Decency"
Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality policing.
-
Saudi Religious Police Return, Just With A Little Less Vengeance
Outside a supermarket in Riyadh, a long-bearded police officer peers at a driver, glances at his female passenger and issues an order: "You should stay away from women."
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Sun, Sand, Religious Police: Holidays In Saudi Arabia May Be Hard Sell
It's the day before the grand opening of Shaden, a luxury desert camp in Saudi Arabia where air-conditioned tents look out on sandstone cliffs. A princely delegation is on its way. But the place isn't quite ready.
-
Saudi Orders 'Kinder, Gentler' Religious Police
Saudi Arabia has stripped its frequently criticised religious police of their powers to arrest, urging them to act "kindly and gently" in enforcing Islamic rules.
-
Saudi Religious Police Issue Rare Apology for Beating Briton
The Saudi religious police issued a rare apology on Tuesday for the beating by its personnel of a British man residing in the kingdom in a supermarket in the capital Riyadh.
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Saudi Arabia police arrest two people over 'free hugs'
Saudi religious police arrested two young men offering a "free hug" to passers-by in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom's capital, local media reported on Thursday.
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Saudi religious police lift ban on women on bikes
A Saudi newspaper says the kingdom's religious police are now allowing women to ride motorbikes and bicycles but only in restricted, recreational areas.
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Saudi Arabia to curb powers of religious police: Reports
Saudi Arabia will curb the powers of its notorious religious police charged with ensuring compliance with Islamic morality but often accused of abuses, a newspaper report said on Wednesday.
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Chased by Saudi religious police for loud stereo, he died: Report
Saudi authorities arrested four members of the notorious religious police who allegedly caused the death of a man and the injury of his wife and two children in a car chase, local media reported on Monday.
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Watch: Saudi woman confronts religious police over painted nails
A video of a Saudi woman confronting the religious police over breaking modesty rules with her painted nails has gone viral after she posted it on the YouTube, Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
