A couple in Saudi Arabia
have been arrested after the man kissed the woman then posted footage of it on
social media. It was captioned ‘teaching her how to drive’ then posted on
Snapchat, but the incident has landed them in trouble.
Saudi Arabia has only
just started allowing women to drive with the first group only receiving their
licences in June this year.
The move was seen as part
of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s far-reaching liberalisation drive as he
seeks to modernise the conservative state. However, following the kiss in the
car, this couple now face jail in the ultra-conservative country.
Stepfeed translated some
tweets of people reacting to the kiss with people saying ‘Is this for real?’
and ‘Lack of modesty. I hope they’re both caught soon.’ However, a more liberal
person said: ‘A man and his girlfriend, what’s the problem? Maybe they’re newly
married and this is a video they were trying to send to his or her family and
it went out to someone else by mistake.’
The Crown Prince is a self-styled
reformer, who recently undertook a global tour aimed at reshaping his kingdom’s
austere image. He is also seeking to break with long-held restrictions on women
and the mixing of the genders.
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