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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (692956)	7/20/2005 10:09:34 AM
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SAUDI ARABIA Woman fired over mobile snapshots Posted Tue, 30 Mar 2004 iafrica.com A Saudi woman has been expelled from her university for taking pictures of unveiled colleagues with a camera-equipped mobile phone and posting them on the internet, a newspaper reported Tuesday. This was the first case of its kind in Dammam in the Eastern Province, according to Al-Yaum, although newspapers had earlier reported cases of girls kicked out of their schools or universities in other parts of the conservative Muslim kingdom for using the banned mobiles to photograph colleagues. The unnamed student in Dammam had taken pictures of colleagues "not wearing the abaya (long black robe) and with their heads uncovered, publishing them through an internet website" and prompting complaints from parents, Al-Yaum said. More than 50 other students at the same female university are being investigated for carrying the banned mobiles, it said. Shop owners in Riyadh told AFP on March 10 that the Saudi interior ministry had started enforcing a months-old ban on the sale of camera handphones, systematically checking that retail outlets are not selling the mobiles. The trade ministry had already banned the import of mobile phones with cameras but the decision had not been applied because phones were being smuggled into the kingdom by traders from other places, mainly Dubai and Bahrain. They were then sold in shops at high prices and without a warranty. The shop owners in Riyadh said the interior ministry had begun searching shops for camera phones, which if found are confiscated. The phones are then re-exported and the shop owners subsequently compensated, they said. * * *