The Public Authority for Audiovisual Media in Saudi Arabia has suspended the series "Halal Victims", which caused an unprecedented uproar on social media sites after it was exposed to societal crises and presented bold scenes and sexual suggestions.

A statement from the General Media Authority # Visual_Audio about stopping the series "Halal Victims" pic.twitter.com/UGbi3mYRC9

- General Authority for Audiovisual Media (@gcamsa) December 30, 2020

Fuss on social media

The series caused a sensation on the communication sites, and a large number of followers accused it of inciting "pedophilia" (pedophilia), as they cut a scene from the series showing the marriage of a child with a woman.

A large number of viewers objected to the makers of the work because they are not Saudis and because of their exposure to Saudi society, and many of them confirmed that the writer of the series is Syrian and the director is Egyptian, and that the scenes were filmed in the Emirates.

#Victims_Halal

The writer is Syrian, the director is Egyptian, and the photography in the Emirates is the last.

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- honey (@asilmiy) December 28, 2020

Some accused the series of "promoting and inciting vice."

Victims of a halal series that calls for vice and harms society. Stop showing the series pic.twitter.com/024Xu4qyVP

- Wardnat (@ poipoipoi908080) December 28, 2020

Others criticized the series’s presentation of internal problems in society, while comparing the Saudi drama with its Egyptian and Syrian counterparts, as one of the tweeters said that “the Egyptian drama shows the courage of the Egyptian officers as in the selection series, and the Syrian drama points to the Syrian generosity no matter how bad the circumstances, while the local Saudi drama is presented as a clown. Greedy, perverted and terrorist. "

The Egyptian drama broadcasts fierce battles about the courage of the Egyptian officers, such as the series “The Choice”,


a Syrian drama that talks about the struggle, patience and generosity of the Syrian, no matter how bad the circumstances

Unless we have the Saudi filming, you clown, you greedy, stealing the heir, oh idiot, perverted, terrorist, and the last one is Bedlove, like what we saw in #Victim_Violence pic.twitter.com/MgGj1H1QBQ

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(@ ROGUE4GENT) December 28, 2020

While few saw that the series discusses real crises from the heart of society, and that public interventions without correct critical tools are what causes crises.

Well, the name of the series is Halal Victims, which means that they will allow them to forget the thing they want under the name of Halal.


I see the series is strong and it tells about an existing reality, but we do not admit it.

- Noon ..🪐 (@noon_xc) December 28, 2020

One of the biggest problems facing the creative field is the interference of the public in adapting it to its concept even though they do not have specialized critical tools for that ... All they have to do is simply use cliched terms ready with populism to describe this creative act in order to kill it morally.

- Fahad Alharbi (@ fahd000n) October 26, 2020

A number of the tweeters saw the need to hold accountable those responsible for the production of the series, so they demanded that the producer, director, author and heroes of the series be held accountable due to their attempt to distort the image of Saudi society.

Janas, I am collapsed from the series "Halal Victims, Takfoun," stood up and stood and executed all those in it and those who published it

I see this, but clips here on Twitter. I feel that I am suffocating him from the amount of calamities and lack of life 😭

- reema (@yyaahh_) December 30, 2020

The story of the series

The series "Halal Victims" deals with the story of 5 girls from different social backgrounds and classes. They were subjected to harsh conditions, and they found no refuge except through Umm Noura, who convinced them that the only way to salvation is the misyar marriage that she manages according to her terms.

The Saudi social drama series is written by the Syrian Nour Shishkly, directed by the Egyptian Ahmed Medhat, and produced by "MBC STUDIOS" and Al Sadaf for audio and video production.

The series is shown every Sunday, as 5 episodes were shown, but the Media Commission stopped showing the rest of it, and decided to hold business officials accountable.

It stars Sana Bakr Younis, Mila Al-Zahrani, Badr Al-Luhaid, Al-Anoud Saud, Nasreen Al-Radi, and Khaled Saqr, and is shown on the witness platform.