U.S. Woman Arrested in Saudi Arabia Starbucks
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 02.07.08 | 2:51 PM ET
Her “crime,” according to the Times of London: sitting with a man who was not her husband. She was hauled away by a member of Saudi Arabia’s Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The woman works for a company in Saudi Arabia and visited the Starbucks with male colleagues to use the Internet after their Riyadh office suffered an outage.
A judge later reportedly told the woman, “You are sinful and you are going to burn in hell.”
Further proof, as I have contended, that, for better and worse, the spread of Starbucks is not changing the world.
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