The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) in Al-Namas has asked local authorities to close down a woman's supplies store for having on display “sexual stimulants” and “immoral pictures”. The Hai'a had reportedly (...)
An Ethiopian dealer of alcohol bombarded officers with stones on Friday in an attempt to escape police attention after a tip-off led them to his store of illicit materials. Despite the resistance, officers managed to restrain the individual, who was (...)
A Saudi man in his thirties was arrested on Sunday in the Al-Namas region for dealing in araq, a locally produced alcoholic beverage. Officers from the anti-drugs squad ordered the man to stop his vehicle and on conducting a search uncovered 240 (...)
Namas Court has sentenced a Syrian dentist to two years in prison and 200 lashes of the whip for sexually harassing female patients at his clinic.
The dentist, who will be deported upon completion of his sentence, was reported to the Commission for (...)
A truck laden with diesel overturned on the Abha to Taif Road Friday morning after its brakes failed. The Pakistani driver, who escaped with light injuries and was taken to hospital as a precaution, was returning from an Aramco station when the (...)
Police in northern Asir are searching for a man who fled from police Thursday after being found with 885 bundles of qat in his car. The man was stopped by a security patrol who proceeded to inspect the vehicle, at which point the man seized the (...)
