01 May 2013

Saudi school to punish female student hugs with therapy, religious education

A Saudi Arabian university has barred female students from hugging each other.

A Saudi Arabian website shared a document allegedly issued by an all female university warning them to not “hug” each other or they would face being transferred to a mental examination by the school.

The document also states that al-Baha University, located in the south of the ultra-conservative Kingdom, will force female students who violate the rule and hug each other to take religious studies all year around, to “amend” their behavior. [Bikya News] Read more