Special to WorldTribune.com Public outrage has spurred Saudi Arabia to strip powers from its 10,000 religious police and require them to be “kinder and gentler.” Saudi authorities have stripped the powers of pursuit and arrest from the Haia force, also known as the Mutawa and formerly the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia has reported tension between the government and the controversial religious police. Senior officials have accused the religious police, called Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, of violating the law and ignoring government policy. They cited the harassment by the police, known by […]
