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29 March 2024

American teen held in Saudi for harassing girls

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Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police arrested an American teen ager caught harassing girls in a public park in the conservative Gulf Kingdom.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice approached the boy, under 18 years, and asked him to come with them after they noticed he was harassing girls visiting the park in the northwestern town of Hai

“The boy violently resisted arrest but they overpowered him and took him away,” the Arabic language daily Sabq said, adding that the unnamed boy lives with his mother, who teaches at Hail university.