Saudi woman attacks cop who stopped her for walking with man (Lead)
May 19th, 2010 - 1:28 pm ICT by IANSLondon, May 19 (IANS) A Saudi religious policeman who stopped a young woman for walking with a man in an amusement park in Saudi Arabia received a rude shock - the woman repeatedly hit him, a British daily reported.
The policeman was from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The incident took place in the Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Hofuf Mubarraz.
He asked the man and the woman, who was in her mid-20s, who they were and their relationship with one another, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
This was too much for the man, who collapsed.
Even before the policeman could react, the woman began hitting him. She punched him repeatedly on the head and upper torso.
The policeman had to be taken to hospital after suffering severe bruises.
Unmarried men and women are not allowed to mix under Saudi Arabia’s strict Islamic rules.
“People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years,” Media Line news agency quoted Saudi human rights activist Wajiha Al Huwaidar as saying.
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