There has been a major shift in the focus of an important and influential Islamic sect across the Middle East and North ...

Some Saudi social media users have suggested that the community security unit represents a return of the religious police but “without long beards”. But other members of the public welcomed ...

Since rising to power, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reduced the influence of notorious religious and morality police forces which enforced strict codes on ordinary people in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 50 people ... But others are comparing the unit to the country's religious police force that until Prince Mohammed stripped much of its power in 2016 had ...

To recall, the Saudi government had earlier constituted a religious police force, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. The force was made to enforce the moral codes.

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically ... a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...

Housekeepers from East Africa suffer beatings, starvation and sexual assault in Saudi Arabia. Here’s what else we learned about the cross-border trade in domestic workers. By Justin Scheck and ...

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically ... a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically ... a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically ... a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...

But while women must still have their bodies and faces covered, restrictions from the feared religious police do not specifically ... a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...