Saudi woman arrested for going out without traditional Muslim clothing – reports

‘The police of Saudi Arabia have detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she walked through one of the main streets of the Saudi capital of Riyadh presumably dressed in a jacket over a dress rather than in traditional robe and headscarf, local media reported.
The woman was reportedly arrested after a complaint was filed by the Saudi religious police known as the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority.
“Police officers have detained a girl who had removed her abaya on al-Tahliya street, implementing a challenge she announced on social media several days ago,” the Riyadh police spokesman, Colonel Fawaz al-Maiman, told the Saudi Al-Sharq newspaper.’
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