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'Photographer' sparks riot
July 26, 2004
Riyadh - A wedding party in Saudi Arabia turned violent after a female
guest was caught using her mobile telephone to take digital photographs of
other women at the celebration, a local newspaper reported Sunday.
Al-Madineh said a fight broke out as a woman used her mobile to take pictures
at the segregated wedding party in Khamis Msheit, about 1000km south-west of
Riyadh. "The scuffle spread to the male section of the party. A number of
guests were hospitalised," the daily added.
Camera-equipped mobile phones are ostensibly banned in the conservative
kingdom, where men and women celebrate weddings separately, so that women are
at liberty to attend without wearing the all-covering black cloaks and veil
that are obligatory in the presence of men.
A Saudi woman was reportedly expelled from her university in March for taking
pictures of unveiled colleagues with a mobile and posting them on the internet,
in one of many such reported cases in the kingdom.
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