Nasir Khan blog

I was born in Poonch (Kashmir) and now I live in Norway. I oppose war and violence and am a firm believer in the peaceful co-existence of all nations and peoples. In my academic work I have tried to espouse the cause of the weak and the oppressed in a world dominated by power politics, misleading propaganda and violations of basic human rights. I also believe that all conscious members of society have a moral duty to stand for and further the cause of peace and human rights throughout the world.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

After woman’s alleged beating, who polices the religious police, Saudis ask

Wael Mahdi, Foreign Correspondent, The National, April 19, 2010

JEDDAH // A woman who asked for a lift to a provincial bus station so she could rejoin her family in Jeddah says she was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police, who accused her of being a runaway, and that they searched her clothes, tied her up with a rope and beat her.

Local police responded to complaints of screaming coming from the building that houses the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (known as Hai’a) in the northern province of Tabuk.

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Tags: beating of women, Saudi Arabia, Saudi religious police