Manama: Police in Kuwait have shaved the heads of 30 young men as a punishment for harassing school girls.
“The boys were detained by the police following complaints from a commercial school for girls about their rowdy behavior in front of the school and about their harassment of the students,” Al Watan daily reported. “Colonel Abdul Rahman Al Suhail, the head of Hawalli police, ordered the shaving of their heads before releasing them.”
They were also asked to sign pledges not to get near the school or harass students, the paper said.
Readers welcomed the punishment as a practical solution, although many said that it was not severe enough and that the pictures of the teenagers with their shaved heads should be published in the local papers.
The sight of teenagers driving near girls’ schools is common in the Gulf as young men try to impress girls or attempt to establish contact with them by relaying their mobile numbers.
However, the mushrooming of openly mixed malls in all major cities in the region has decreased the significance of girls’ schools and given the large shopping complexes more importance as potential meeting or communication points.
Government schools are not mixed in any of the six Gulf Cooperation Council states.
