MAKKAH, 25 January 2007 — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested a Nigerian man who was living in the Kingdom illegally and has been charged with possession and distribution of pornography.
Police in Makkah say they have never seen the tactic employed by the suspect, who was allegedly passing business cards with his name and number printed. The suspect then used children to home-deliver the pornographic material. Many of the man’s customers were young Saudis.
Eventually one of these business cards ended up in the hands of authorities, who then set up an easy sting operation by simply ordering some DVDs.
After his arrest, police went to the man’s house and found a cache of 800 pornographic DVDs.
This was not the first arrest for the suspect. The man had been sentenced to two years in prison and 6,000 lashes before. He served seven months in jail and was later deported. He returned on an Umrah visa.
