[Air-l] Saudi crackdown on camera phones

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

Saudi police have begun confiscating mobile phones with cameras if their owners use them in public, amid scandal about a phone clip of an alleged rape. 
Camera phones are already illegal in the kingdom, but until now they have been tolerated by the authorities. 
Footage of the alleged rape circulated by phone has caused outrage. Three men have been arrested over the incident. 
Two of them, accused of orchestrating the rape, are young men from prominent Saudi families. The third is Nigerian. 
A Riyadh hospital told the Arab News newspaper that it had been ordered by the authorities to confiscate any cell phone cameras being used inside the hospital. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3911219.stm

Randolph Kluver
Executive Director
Singapore Internet Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 637718
phone (65) 6790-5770
URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/