Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality ...

Saudi Arabia has barred its religious police from pursuing suspects or making arrests, curbing the powers of an institution whose aggressive enforcement of the Islamic kingdom's strict morality ...

In all fairness, the religious police has been formed by the government with a task to protect virtue and prevent vice. The commission, despite many incidents involving its members that even ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the "Jewish" toy -- already banned ...

Karen House argues that Mohammed bin Salman has an opportunity to protect his interests and secure peace in the region.

Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after seeing them on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers," the Al-Yom newspaper said.

Faisal J. Abbas The head of the Saudi religious police, Sheikh Abdulatif Al-Sheikh, recently made public statements revealing that there was nothing in Shariah Law that prohibits women from driving.

Credit - Win McNamee—Getty Images As a boy, Mohammed bin Salman played video games alone in his family palace because Saudi Arabia’s religious police permitted no public entertainment.