Saudi Arabia's religious police ordered the arrest of 57 youths this week for flirting with girls in malls in the holy city of Mecca, daily news paper, the Saudi Gazette, reported on Saturday.
The young men were detained on Thursday evening by regular police officers following a request from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the English-language daily reported.
According to the paper, the Commission had received reports of the young men’s "bad" behavior at different malls in Mecca.
They were accused of wearing "indecent clothing and playing loud music and dancing" to attract the attention of the opposite sex, it added.
A source at the Commission told the paper that 20 of its staffers and policemen were dispatched to the troubled areas and police arrested the young men and transferred them to the Al-Mansour Police Station.
None of them resisted arrest, the source said. The source added that those found innocent upon investigation would be released while the others would be referred to a court of law.
Guardians of some of the young men came to their defense, saying that the youths would usually get together on the weekend to have fun without violating the social code of conduct by imposing themselves on the girls at the malls
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