Saudi woman who wore skirt in viral video has been arrested, state television reports

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Saudi woman who wore skirt in viral video has been arrested, state television reports

By Adam Taylor July 18 at 10:26 AM

A young woman is at the center of a controversy about clothing in Saudi Arabia, after she posted videos of herself in one of the nation's most conservative provinces wearing a short skirt and a cropped top.

The woman has been arrested by Riyadh police for wearing “suggestive clothing,” Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya reported Tuesday.

Link to tweet

The brief clips, originally posted to the social network Snapchat over the weekend by a popular user named Khulood, show the woman walking through an ancient fort in Ushayqir, a village in Najd province about 95 miles from the capital, Riyadh.

The woman wears a skirt that stops above her knees and a top that shows her midriff; her head is also uncovered.
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Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Originally from London, he studied at the University of Manchester and Columbia University. Follow @mradamtaylor

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Oh no! The horror!! Did she also chew gum? Fuck these motherfuckers. nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Our Extremist Ally.

[snooper2]

3. BOOBS MAKE MEN HUMP STREET LAMPS!

Doesn't she know what kind of hell in the streets she is about to unleash! Lock her up for life!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

7. I thought it was umbrella holes in picnic tables

[VigilantG]

4. And let's keep closing our eyes to Saudi Arabia and complete the arms deal!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. They should see my Saudi neighbors

There are five or six Saudi UC Irvine students, three of them female and when this old dude in a motorized wheelchair isn't around it's basically a party house.

[Initech]

6. Worst country in the world.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

8. Is she an activist of some kind? I assume she knew the law,

so what was she hoping to accomplish? I admire her pluck if she is being civilly disobedient - I would have just left the country. (The WaPo link is giving me grief about my ad-blocker).

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. Do any of those things matter?

Was she behaving inappropriately by the standards of anyone who doesn't have an automatic tithe deducted from their paycheck to support ISIS or the Taliban?

[HeartachesNhangovers]

12. They matter from a journalistic standpoint: "Why"

is one of the 5 W's of journalism. As I said, I couldn't read the linked story, so I am asking if the story answered that question.

[cwydro]

9. Islam is so cool.

Woohoo.

[Iggo]

11. That's our friends, right?

Religion is the goddam motherfucking BEST!!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Saudi Arabia says woman arrested for wearing skirt in viral video has been released

Saudi Arabia says woman arrested for wearing skirt in viral video has been released

By Adam Taylor July 19 at 10:39 AM