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Arabia
Saudi cabinet decree prevents ‘religious police’ from pursuit, arrest
2016-04-16
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Saudi cabinet has issued a decree which restricts the Saudi Committee of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (often referred to as "inquisitors religious police" by Western media) to pursue and arrest violators, and has required members of the Commission to report violators to the police or the anti-narcotics force, al-Riyadh Arabic language daily has reported.

According to al-Riyadh, the above decision was part of a detailed decree which sought to organize the framework of the committee’s operation. The below is a translation of the report which is based on the cabinet minutes.
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