MADINAH, 23 June 2007 — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice recently arrested a married father of two who was blackmailing a woman into submitting to his sexual advances by threatening to spread indecent pictures of her on the Internet.
The woman’s brother informed commission members about the man, who had also demanded SR5,000 from the woman to stop. Commission members monitored the activities of the man and arrested him once they had secured evidence.
Meanwhile, commission members also recently arrested an African man, who claimed he was a magician.
The man, who was arrested with a woman helper, would charge women SR1,000 as a mere consultation fee.
He also claimed to have the power to make people love or hate each other.
Following a tip-off, commission members monitored the activities of the man for three days and arrested him in the Al-Hara Al-Sharqia District of Madinah.
The man was arrested while providing a woman with a spell that would make her husband hate a woman he had fallen in love with and instead love her.
