YAHOO NEWS: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A governor in northern Saudi Arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair, local media said Tuesday.
Prince Fahd bin Badr, governor of the northern al-Jof region, ordered police to carry out the punishment after seeing a group of men with long hair pestering female students as they left school in the northern al-Qurayat province, Al-Hayat newspaper said.
It said the prince told a gathering at his palace in the northern town of Skaka on Sunday he has instructed police to apply the punishment to all youths guilty of flirting, including "the sons of senior military and civil officials."
"The decision doesn't include men who spend their free time in public places without hurting anyone," the paper quoted the prince as saying. Saudi Governor Orders Haircuts for Men Who Hit On Women >>> Associated Press | April 29, 2008
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