Saudi religious police stand by arrest of businesswoman
2008-02-19 - (The Daily Star Lebanon) - Saudi Arabia's religious police struck back on Tuesday at critics of their arrest of a businesswoman in a Starbucks cafe for mixing with a male colleague, threatening to sue a journalist. The powerful Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police, charged the Saudi woman. 

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