Police in Saudi Arabia has arrested 50 people on various charges of harassment earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The arrests took place after complaints from a number of citizens and residents were made and evidence was found. Evidence was discovered against the 50 that are arrested.<\/p>\n
In 2017, a royal decree stated that \u201cconsidering the dangers sexual harassment poses and its negative impact on the individual, the family and society along with its contradiction of Islamic principles, our customs and traditions,\u201d the Interior Ministry \u201cshall prepare a draft law to tackle sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n
In May 2018, the Shoura Council and the Cabinet approved legislation, drafted by the ministry and instructed by King Salman, that criminalized sexual harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Saudi Arabia has arrested 50 people on various charges of harassment earlier this week. The arrests took place in Riyadh over December 24th and 25th The arrests took place after complaints from a number of citizens and residents were made and evidence was found. Evidence was discovered against the 50 that are arrested. … ","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":5651,"id":5651,"title":"header image template.001","filename":"header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","filesize":0,"url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/50-people-have-been-arrested-over-two-days-on-harassment-charges-in-saudi-arabia\/attachment\/header-image-template-001-116\/","alt":"","author":"403","description":"","caption":"","name":"header-image-template-001-116","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":5650,"date":"2019-12-27 09:56:24","modified":"2019-12-27 09:56:24","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":561,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18-300x171.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","medium_large-width":561,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","large-width":561,"large-height":320,"1536x1536":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","1536x1536-width":561,"1536x1536-height":320,"2048x2048":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","2048x2048-width":561,"2048x2048-height":320,"small":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18-230x131.jpeg","small-width":120,"small-height":68,"custom-size":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/12\/header-image-template.001-18.jpeg","custom-size-width":351,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","ad_square_right":"","summary":"","flexible_content":false,"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","disable_ads":false,"slots_script_override":"","ad_horizontal_top_desktop":"","ad_vertical_left_desktop":"","ad_vertical_right_desktop":"","ad_horizontal_top_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_bottom_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_1":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_2":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_3":"","article_ad_infeed_slot":"","ad_square_podcast":"","disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_sponsor_name":"","legacy_sponsor_website":"","legacy_sponsor_content":"","legacy_sponsor_image":"","legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Rabiya","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}