Saturday, February 23, 2008

Saudi Arabia: If I lived there I would be soooo busted

Saudi cracks down on flirting. 57 arrested.

Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police ordered the arrest of 57 youths this week for flirting with girls in malls in the holy city of Mecca, The Saudi Gazette reported on Saturday.

The young men were detained on Thursday evening by regular police officers following a request from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the English-language daily reported.

They were accused of wearing "indecent clothing and playing loud music and dancing" to attract the attention of the opposite sex, it added.
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