The woman arrested in Tabuk recently by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Hai'a, has made further claims of abuse against the men who arrested her, including that they tried to tie her legs, wanted to search her and tried to remove her veil. She claimed that four Hai'a members pushed into a dark room where they abused her. The woman also claimed that one of the members tried to tie her legs and another one tried to strangle her. She said one of them even tried to remove her veil and uncover her face. She claimed that another member asked to search her but when she refused he allegedly slapped her in her face. This is when she started screaming. Worshippers at an adjacent mosque heard her screams and called the police. The police arrived and took the woman into custody. Sulaiman Al-Enzi, the chief of the Hia'a Branch in Tabuk has refused to answer queries in this regard. After Okaz sent him a letter with questions, he contacted the paper's reporter and angrily said: “You have become investigators and not journalists.” He told the reporter to contact the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution Committee (BIP) for clarification. Meanwhile, the BIP has now summoned the man who allegedly called the Hai'a last Friday to tell them that woman was trying to run away to Jeddah. According to a source the woman's mother told investigators that the woman did not escape but had quarreled with her brother, left Jeddah for Tabuk, and then wanted to return home. The woman had told investigators that she had only asked the man to take her to the bus station so that she could return home. Instead, the man phoned the Hai'a, who took her into custody.
