SAUDI ARABIA: Woman opens fire on religious police officers
In an unprecedented outburst toward Saudi Arabia’s religious police, a married woman shot at several officers in a patrol car after she was caught in an “illegal seclusion” with another man in the province of Ha’il on Tuesday.
“She shot at the officers to distract them and allow the man to escape instant detention,” said Sheik Mutlak al Nabet, a spokesman for the religious police in Ha’il. He added that the unnamed woman’s husband has filed an official report, asking for his wife to be punished and stripped of her Saudi nationality.