The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) staffers here have detained a man of Arab nationality on charges of “blackmailing a young woman and threatening to publish photographs and video recordings of her on the Internet”. Regional Hai'a head Abdullah Al-Ahmari said that the woman reported that a work colleague with whom she had been having a “forbidden relationship” was blackmailing her in order to continue the affair, and that “in her repentance and regret over the relationship requested the help of the Hai'a”. “We opened an investigation which led to the arrest of the man, and he was found in possession of a collection of pornographic photographs and video recordings of his illegal relationships in his office with work colleagues, as well as images related to the woman in question,” Al
