{"id":3208,"date":"2023-11-27T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/saudi-arabia-is-to-outlaw-sexual-harassment-and-theres-mixed-reactions\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:50:04","slug":"saudi-arabia-is-to-outlaw-sexual-harassment-and-theres-mixed-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-is-to-outlaw-sexual-harassment-and-theres-mixed-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia is to outlaw sexual harassment \u2014 and there&#8217;s mixed reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        Twitter users have responded to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s new draft law criminalising sexual harassment\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saudi Arabia this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/1770686\">passed a draft law<\/a> to criminalise sexual harassment, just under a month before a ban on female drivers is due to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The Shura Council, the kingdom\u2019s advisory body, approved the anti-harassment bill Tuesday, saying it is \u201caiming to combat the crime of harassment, preventing it from occurring, applying punishment to the perpetrators, and protecting the victim in order to safeguard the individual\u2019s privacy, dignity and personal freedom guaranteed by Islamic law and regulations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shura.gov.sa\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/shuraarabic\/internet\/news\/0909143901\">a council statement said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/region\/saudi-arabia\/saudi-shura-council-\/approves-draft-anti-harassment-bill\">reports<\/a>, the new law will carry a sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 300,000 riyals (68,000\u20ac).<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Saudi reactions were mixed.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, there have been almost 90,000 mentions of the conversation&#8217;s top two Twitter hashtags combined, such as <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/05\/31\/saudi-arabia-is-to-outlaw-sexual-harassment-and-there-s-mixed-reactions\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users have responded to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s new draft law criminalising sexual harassment ADVERTISEMENT Saudi Arabia this week passed a draft law to criminalise sexual harassment, just under a month before a ban on female drivers is due to be lifted. The Shura Council, the kingdom\u2019s advisory body, approved the anti-harassment bill Tuesday, saying it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}