Saudi activists on social networking sites expressed their anger at the incidents of harassment experienced by women in several parts of the Kingdom during the last two days of the holy month of Ramadan.
Activists chirped through the latest Twitter feature, a girl molested in a shop in the eastern city of Dammam after a similar incident in the al-Gosaibi district of the eastern city of Khobar when a young man was molested with girls driving their car.
The northern region of Tabuk also witnessed the third harassment case in the past two days and the harassment of the employees under the label of the Tabuk harasser.
He called on the Moroccans under these signs to raise awareness to eliminate the phenomenon, and also called for crackdown on the harassers.
Some of them called for toughening the sanctions against the defectors and defaming them. Others rejected the slander because the punishment was aimed at discipline. They demanded a severe and undisclosed punishment in the media, so that the culprit would not lose his future after he had presented it.
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Earlier, the security authorities arrested the harasser in Dammam, and continue to search for others.
In its first official statement on harassment, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said in a tweet on Twitter that it was following up on its violations, including harassment of some girls. The General Presidency also receives reports of the crime of harassment.
He suggested that all those who suffer from harassment should begin to defame and defame those scammers in the footsteps of the metoo # campaign in America and the West because they succeeded in wow and dropped and exposed many of the hooligans; they changed whole community norms and standards and most importantly they improved the status of women and society. - AVEMPACE (@ m7mdsh23) May 12, 2019 |
Saudi Arabia last year passed a law criminalizing harassment in the country, imposing penalties of up to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 riyals ($ 26,600) or one of those penalties against anyone who commits a crime of harassment.
The penalty shall be imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding 300 thousand riyals (80,000 dollars) or one of these penalties, in specific cases.
The Anatolia news agency quoted local media as saying that the harassment cases during the current year have decreased compared to last year.
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She pointed out that the courts recorded 579 cases of harassment during the past eight months, specifically in the period from the first Muharram until the current Ramadan (1440), while the number of cases of harassment during the same period last year, the past 708 cases were handed down judgments.