Wearing high-waisted miniskirt Saudi police arrest woman snaps sparked heated debate in Kingdom. Police in Saudi Arabia arrest woman over wearing miniskirt videos uploaded at social media.
The videos posted Snapchat account of Model Khulood. In video young woman in a high-waisted miniskirt walking through a fort in Ushaiqer, outside the capital Riyadh.
She wearing miniskirt and walking through a historic site in the ultraconservative kingdom.
In a high-waisted miniskirt she walking through a fort in Ushaiqer, outside the capital Riyadh.
Playing with sand in the dunes and turning towards the camera for a close-up, her long hair uncovered.
Wearing high-waisted miniskirt Saudi police arrest woman snaps sparked heated debate in Kingdom.
Police in Riyadh said the woman being questioned and had confessed to visiting the site with her male guardian.
The woman denied that she had uploaded the clips and that the Snapchat account was hers.
The case has now been referred to the public prosecutor’s office, which will decide whether to prosecute the woman.
The government had issued a memo saying authorities were searching for the woman who had been “walking around… in indecent clothing”.
The videos and snaps sparked heated debate, with social media users in the region and beyond weighing in on questions of gender and rights in the kingdom.
In the kingdom women required to wear long black abaya robes and cover their hair in public.
Many come to the defence of the young woman and pointing out the privileges afforded to Western women by Saudi authorities.
Wearing high-waisted miniskirt Saudi police arrest woman snaps sparked heated debate in Kingdom.
US First Lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president, did not cover their hair when they visited Saudi Arabia.
Others expressed outrage and derided those speaking out in support of the model.
“If it were Trump’s daughter, we would have braced ourselves for the flood of compliments and love poems,” read one tweet.
Problem solved,” tweeted Shahd bint Fahd alongside a picture of the model with Ivanka Trump’s face superimposed over the original.
“These are the demands of the liberal ignorant community: a naked woman, a co-ed movie theater, and music and dance.
That’s progress to them! Not health care and not education,” read one tweet.
