Saudi religious police urges crackdown on blackmailers of women

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By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police called Monday for tougher measures against blackmailers of women in the kingdom and noted the rising number of cases of the crime on the internet.

Sheikh Abdel Latif al- Sheikh, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, told Al Arabiya News Channel that blackmailers of women were presently getting light sentences and that tougher ones were needed.

Al-Sheikh, in a news conference earlier in the day, called for naming and shaming perpetrators as a means of deterring the crime which he said was on the rise.

The official told Al Arabiya that last week alone eight cases of blackmail had been reported in a single day at two centers affiliated with the religious police in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/04/15/Saudi-religious-police-urges-crackdown-on-blackmailers-of-women.html

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1. It would be nice if they actually codified the law of the Kingdom:

right now, if the prosecutor accuses you of outgrabing vorpel borograves and the judge says you're guilty, you're just out of luck

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2. Outgrabing vorpel borograves is illegal only when it's done in a car driven by a woman.

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3. It depends on the judge:

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