Saudi woman arrested after wearing miniskirt in video
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a young woman who wore a miniskirt in public and posted the video online, sparking backlash from people who say she flagrantly violated the kingdom’s conservative Islamic dress code.
The woman, whose name was not given, was detained by police in the capital, Riyadh, for wearing “immodest clothes” that contradicted the country’s conservative Islamic dress code, state media reported Tuesday. Police referred her case to the public prosecutor, according to the official Twitter account of state-run TV channel al-Ekhbariya.
The young Saudi woman drew attention over the weekend when she shared on Snapchat a video of herself walking in a historic village north of the capital wearing a miniskirt and crop top, and showing her hair. In the now-viral video, the woman is filmed walking around the desert region of Najd, where many of Saudi Arabia’s most conservative tribes and families are from.
CBS News has not confirmed the authenticity of the following video clip – which has been posted on Twitter — but it appears to show the woman in a miniskirt and black crop top as many have described:
Social media is wildly popular in Saudi Arabia as a space to vent frustrations and gauge public opinion. The outcry against the video and the woman’s subsequent arrest reveal how powerful and widespread conservative views are in the kingdom, despite recent moves by Saudi Arabia to modernize and loosen some rules.
The country’s 31-year-old heir to the throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has pushed for greater openings for entertainment in part to appease the youth, who are active on social media and can bypass government censors online. More than half of Saudi Arabia’s population is under 25.
The government announced last week that girls would be allowed for the first time to play sports in public school and have access to physical education classes. The powers of the kingdom’s religious police have also been curtailed, and they are officially no longer allowed to arrest people.
Despite these moves, strict gender segregation rules and other restrictions on women remain in place. Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and cannot obtain a passport or travel abroad without a male relative’s permission.
After the woman’s video surfaced, some Saudis expressed alarm, saying that Twitter was being used as a tool to out other citizens.
Ibrahim al-Munayif, a Saudi writer with more than 41,000 followers on Twitter, wrote on his official account that allowing people to disobey the law leads to chaos.
“Just like we call on people to respect the laws of countries they travel to, people must also respect the laws of this country,” he wrote.
Others defended her by posting images from President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May, in which first lady Melania Trump and his daughter Ivanka, though modestly dressed in higher necklines and longer sleeves, shunned wearing a head cover or the abaya.
Ivanka Trump’s blonde tresses and attire sparked a Twitter hashtag during Mr. Trump’s visit, with Saudi males commenting on her looks and referring to Mr. Trump as Abu Ivanka, meaning Ivanka’s father.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump poses for a photo with Saudi women on a visit to an all-women’s business services center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sun., May 21, 2017.
One Twitter user, whose post was shared more than 1,700 times, superimposed an image of Ivanka’s face on the young Saudi woman’s body, writing: “Enough already, the situation has been solved.”
Others wrote that had the woman been a foreigner, people would be talking about her beauty, but because she is Saudi, they are calling for arrest.
The woman’s image was blurred on Saudi news websites reporting on the case. It is common in Saudi Arabia to see heavily blurred or pixelated images of women’s faces on billboards and storefronts — in stark contrast to the many towering images of senior male royals displayed across the country.
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Bodies Found in Swiss Glacier Could Solve a Mystery From 1942
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After two months, the children — five boys and two girls — were divided among families in the neighborhood.
The eldest brother, then 13, went to work for a baker; a second brother went to work for a shoemaker and later became a priest, spending decades in Madagascar; two became stone masons; and a fifth worked as a restaurant chef. All five sons have died.
Ms. Udry-Dumoulin lived with her aunt, and when she married she moved to another village about 40 minutes away. The siblings were never close, she said. “They were busy with their own lives,” she said.
Each Aug. 15, to mark the disappearance, some of the siblings would climb the glacier to pray, she recalled. “For us, our parents were always beside us when we were up there,” she said.
Ms. Udry-Dumoulin, who has had a heart attack and a stroke, said she was no longer able to climb all the way up the glacier.
But now, she said with a laugh, her parents have descended from the glacier, via a police helicopter. “I’m impatient to see them even if they are mummified and black after the 75 years they slept together in the glacier,” she said.
In a phone interview, Stéphane Vouardoux, a spokesman for the police in the Canton of Valais, where the couple disappeared in 1942, said that DNA testing was underway on the bodies and on objects found near them.
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“We still do not know for sure if these are the Dumoulins, and we have doubts, though the circumstantial evidence suggests that could be the case,” he said, noting that 280 people from the area had disappeared since 1926 without a trace after vanishing in mountains, lakes or glaciers.
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The discovery of the bodies was a matter of chance. Mr. Vouardoux said that a worker for Glacier 3000, which runs cable cars and ski lifts, was walking in the picturesque mountainous area off the trail, near a ski lift about 8,600 feet above a ski resort, Les Diablerets, when he spotted two black rocks he had not noticed before.
When the worker got closer, he suddenly saw the bodies, Mr. Vouardoux said. After several forensic police specialists were dispatched to the scene, he said, they broke through the ice and discovered a book, a backpack and a watch.
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Bernhard Tschannen, the chief executive of Glacier 3000, said the discovery appeared to have been made possible by the effects of global warming, which he said was causing the glacier to lose up to half a meter, or 1.6 feet, a year. “They were lying together, half in the glacier and half exposed,” he said, adding, “We believe they were walking between Valais and Bern and fell in a crevasse.”
Mr. Vouardoux said that the Dumoulins — a shoemaker and a teacher — had apparently vanished while traveling to a chalet in Bern, although family lore has it that they had gone to milk cows. Their disappearance troubled their hometown, the village of Savièse, for three-quarters of a century.
“Something happened to them,” Mr. Vouardoux said. “We don’t know what that is. This mystery has haunted the village, and this may finally bring a much-needed sense of closure for the village and the family.”
The theory, he said, is that the couple fell into a crevasse.
Search parties combed the area for two months, to no avail. “We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping,” Ms. Udry-Dumoulin told a Swiss newspaper. “We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day.”
Local legend has it that the glacier at Les Diablerets is inhabited by devils and that has spooked local residents for years. But Mr. Vouardoux said that residents of Savièse, a village of 7,000 people, were known more for their appreciation of wine, their fondness for theater and their tenacity.
Mr. Vouardoux said that he was determined to solve the mystery for the sake of the two surviving children, noting that the village credo was: “We never give up.”
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Ms. Udry-Dumoulin, an observant Catholic, said of the family’s plans: “We will arrange a funeral for them as if they had just passed away. The religious aspect is very important for me.” She said she hoped to bury her parents in the cemetery where her five brothers are interred.
The couple’s youngest child — Ms. Udry-Dumoulin’s younger sister, Monique — was also relieved at the news, she said.
The police said that bodies continued to be discovered as glaciers recede. Last year, the body of a German skier who disappeared in 1964 was found in the area.
In 2015, the remains of two Japanese climbers who disappeared during a snowstorm in 1970 were discovered in the Valais area, near the Matterhorn glacier.
And in 2012, three brothers who had been missing since 1926 were found by British climbers on the Aletsch glacier.
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