Religious Police and Honor Killings
If you are a woman in Saudi Arabia, you are not allowed to mingle with men you do not know. Women who do so might be arrested by the country's religious police.
The Jerusalem Post reports that two young sisters, aged 19 and 21, were accused of mixing with men and violating Islamic law. The religious police arrested them, which prompted their enraged brother to kill the sisters in an "honor killing."
Honor killings – cases in which women are killed by relatives for socializing with men who are not their husbands or relatives – are a common practice in the Middle East and governments are trying to use legislation and awareness campaigns to end them.
Saudi Arabia, which is governed by a strict form of Islamic law, does not allow women and men to mix if they are unrelated.
The religious police enforce this and other religious rules, such as an Islamic dress code, prayer attendance and prohibiting possession or consumption of alcohol.
The religious rules are particularly tough on women, and the Society for Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia is doing what it can to protect human rights. Saudi Arabia is under increasing international pressure to put a stop to the religious arrests and killings.
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