Saudi vice police order shops who employ men and women to put up segregation walls to keep them apart
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 30, 2013 22:04
Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to put up walls to separate their male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws.
The barriers need to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex.
This follows Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islam which prohibits men and women who are not immediate relatives from socialising.
The news comes only days after the religious police, known as the Mutawa, said there would be no punishment for men who frequent shopping malls and public spaces in their underwear.
The new and controversial trend among young men is to go out in public wearing only undershirts and trousers, normally worn underneath the traditional robes.
Equality has been a slow process in Saudi Arabia, where women are still not allowed to drive a car, must use separate entrances at banks and offices, and follow strict dress codes.
They also need permission from a male relative or their husband to work, travel, study or marry and a woman’s testimony counts for less than that of a man in a court of law.
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