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29 March 2024

Barber held for cutting girl's hair in Saudi

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Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested an Arab barber caught cutting the hair of a 20-year-old girl in violation of local laws banning gender mixing.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice raided by the saloon in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah after receiving a report about the “dubious” activities of the barber, Sabq daily said.

"They stormed into the saloon and found that the barber was cutting the girl’s hair while the door was closed,” the paper said.

“They arrested the barber while the girl was handed to her family. The barber, who was working in a neighboring Gulf state a month ago, confessed to having many female customers for lower hair cut prices.”