A citizen Saudi Arabia who was found guilty of sexual harassmentl revealed his identity in a newspaper of the kingdom’s state.
The move is the first time the Saudi media has carried out under a new law on sexual violence. So far, sexual harassment has become a taboo issue in the country.
The Medina City Court ordered the public identification of Yasser Muslim Al-Arawi after being sentenced to eight months in prison and fined 5,000 riyals for sexual harassment.
The private newspaper Okaz and state-owned television station Al-Ekhbariya said the disclosure of the identity of the abuser was the first implementation of the Saudi sexual harassment law.
The law requires that any perpetrator of harassment of identity must be published in local media.
Al-Araqi was found guilty of “touching from behind and verbally assaulting and harassing the victim,” Okaz’s report was quoted as saying. AFP.
Name-calling and shaming are often used as punishment in a number of cases in Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia.
Perpetrators of sexual harassment began to be punished in 2018 in Saudi Arabia.
At that time, Saudi Arabia was indeed implementing a series of conservative rule reforms following the appointment of Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) as Saudi Crown Prince in 2017.
Since MbS took office, Saudi Arabia has begun to loosen conservative rules ranging from allowing women to drive, traveling without a guardian, filing for divorce, to allowing non-Muslim tourists to stay in the same room.
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