Rights Group Says Arrest By Saudi Religious Police Led To Honor Killing

In Saudi Arabia, the Society for Defending Women’s Rights says that the country's religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, are ultimately responsible for the "honor killing" of two sisters by their brother. Qatar's The Peninsula reported yesterday that Society claimed religious police sparked the anger of the women's brother by arresting the women, ages 19 and 21, for mixing with unrelated males. Police put them in a Riyadh women's shelter. Their brother shot them, in the presence of their father, when the left the shelter on July 5. The Society called for the government to charge the brother with murder, and also to bring charges against the religious police involved in the case.