Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has arrested 28 people, including four Saudi citizens, for holding a “depraved party.”
Alcohol and music instruments were seized at the party held at a recreation area on the highway to Madinah, local news site Sabq reported.
According to the report, those who were arrested were three Saudi men and one Saudi woman, 12 Filipinas and three Filipinos working at a local hospital and nine Sri Lankans. Two more people were able to escape during the raid. A Saudi man has reportedly organized the party.
An investigation has been launched and the detainees have been referred to the competent authorities for legal action, the report said.
Alcohol and the mixing of unrelated men and women are strictly prohibited in Saudi Arabia.
Last year, the Commission arrested 30 people on charges of debauchery and Satanism in an open air party.
“The group were from 11 different nationalities and included Americans, Europeans, Arabs and Saudi nationals,” a member of the Commission posted on his Twitter account.
“The men and women mixed openly at a party, drank alcohol and used drugs as they engaged in satanic rituals, moving around fire and listening to loud music. Unfortunately, Saudis were among them,” he said.
The religious police serviceman added that those engaged in the fire rituals were naked.
“Three men were arrested as they were engaged in obscene activities with women and one American was busted as he was pushing drugs,” he said.
