The arrest of a Saudi girl veiled the artist Majed Al-Mohandes and passed to the prosecution for harassment

Saqr News Saudi police arrested a veiled girl who ran into the theater during a concert in the village of Al-Muhannad , City of Taif and singer kissed.

The singer Majid Al Mohandes sang at the Okaz Art Festival in this western city.

A video was posted on social media showing men and women security forces carrying the girl wearing the niqab outside the concert hall.

Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to meddle and sit with men who are not related to them.

There was no commentary on the engineer, described by his position as "Prince of Arabic song" on the incident.

The singer of Iraqi descent, who also has Saudi nationality, continued to present songs at the ceremony after the incident.

Police said that the girl had been taken to a women's detention center where she was allegedly charged with a criminal offense. The Saudi newspaper Okaz quoted a police spokesman in the Makkah region saying that women arrested at the Taif Girls Protection Institution would be brought to the public prosecutor's office under the system of combating badual harbadment. The same newspaper quoted lawyer Murad Sabeeh saying that the girl "will be liable to imprisonment for up to two years and a fine of up to one hundred thousand riyals, or to One of the penalties, according to article VI of the anti-harbadment system ".

Saudi Arabia imposes strict ethical rules on the use of alcohol and insists on the need to wear decent clothes and to separate the bades.

These restrictions, which long barred the women of the Kingdom from attending public events, were eased last year as part of a series of reforms adopted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The incident comes just a few weeks after Saudi women were allowed to drive in the context of reforms that began in Saudi society, particularly in the entertainment sector, which angered conservatives and politicians alike. extremists in Saudi Arabia.

One of the goals of the Bin Salman economic plan announced last year under the title "Vision 2030" is to increase spending on cultural and recreational activities in the oil dependent kingdom of 2.9 to 6% by 2030.

For the first time, women were able to attend concerts and football matches, and the Kingdom also hosted the first concert of a year. singer, which was given to the Lebanese singer Heba Touji in December 2017.