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Saudi Religious Police Face Backlash
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 01, 2007 10:22pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Monday, July 2, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By DONNA ABU-NASR
Associated Press Writer
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- As the car stopped outside a Riyadh amusement park, two bearded men dragged the driver from the wheel and took the three women on a wild ride of more than an hour, bouncing over sidewalks and finally abandoning them on a darkened street.
The women at first thought they had been kidnapped by terrorists. The two men however, said they were religious police.
It might have gone down as just one more excess of zealousness by the forces charged with upholding Islamic modesty, except that Umm Faisal, the senior of three women, did something that is believed unprecedented in Saudi Arabia: She went to court.
On Monday, four years after the incident, the latest chapter of the legal battle being waged by this 50-year-old mother of five reopens before Riyadh's Grievances Court, which handles damages suits for abuses by government and public figures.
The unusual publicity surrounding Umm Faisal's story comes on top of two cases involving the death in religious police custody of two Saudi men - one arrested for allegedly consuming alcohol, another for being alone with a woman not of his family. |
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