European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              July 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 9 allegations of abusive unsubstantiated humiliation of suspects during unnecessary body forced entry into private coerced i kept asking the Are you terrorists saudi religious police face backlash by Donna Abunasar the associated press saudi Arabia As the car stopped outside a Riyadh amusement two bearded men dragged the Man Driver from behind the wheel and took the three female passengers on a wild ride of More than an bouncing Over sidewalks and finally abandoning them on a dark ened the women at first thought they had been kidnapped by Ter the two men said they were religious it might have gone Down As just one More excess of zealous Ness by the forces charged with upholding islamic except that umm the oldest of three did something that is believed unprecedented in saudi Arabia she went to on four years after the the latest chapter of the Legal Battle being waged by this 50yearold Mother of five re opens before Riyadh grievances which handles damages suits for abuses by govern ment and Public the unusual publicity sur rounding umm Faisal Story comes on top of two cases involving the death in religious police custody of two saudi men one arrested for allegedly consuming another for being alone female beggars in saudi Arabia congregate separately from a male beggar on a Riyadh Street in in nearly All aspects of saudi unrelated men and women do not with a woman not of his a trial opened sunday against three religious police officers and a fourth Man in the death of Ahmed the Man detained for being alone with a the victims relatives demanded the death penalty against the taken the cases threaten to undermine the authority of the forces the Independent body called the commission for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of since the commissions creation More than six decades there has been no known Public Legal action taken against its members despite complaints they occasionally overstep their the Public View has tended to be that whatever their they Are acting in islam name to defend but things May be the National society for human a no govern ment has issued a report according to the daily Arab Levels a string of allegations at the religious police abusive unsubstantiated humiliation of suspects during unnecessary body forced entry into Pri vate coerced umm Faisal its not her full which is withheld in re ports on the Case says her 21yearold daughter and her indonesian maid went to pick up her two teenage sons from the amusement Park in the family new Chevrolet i kept asking the Are you terrorists they finally said they were members of the com she umm Faisal said the men drove so fast and badly that smoke came out of the the men stopped the called their friends and asked them to pick them the who dont know How to drive and cant under saudi were left to the mercy of umm Faisal headed to the police to Lodge a when the commission members claimed we were indecently because her daughters veil didst cover her she South korean businessman gets 18 months for bar beating by Kwangtze Kim the associated press South Korea a court sentenced South korean tycoon Kim Seung Youn to 18 months in prison monday Over a sensational beating attack earlier this year against bar workers involved in a scuffle with his prosecutors last month sought a two year prison term for the Hansha group chairman in the attack on of duty Karaoke bar workers who engaged in the altercation with his 22yearold a student at Yale in its written the Seoul District court said that kims body guards forcibly took the victims to a construction site near the where the tycoon kicked and punched the court said that judging by medical records and Pho they were seriously attacked and three of them suffered not a few the court did not describe the extent of the judge Kim Chu Hwan said kims responsibility for the crime was heavy As the Han wha chief mobilized his social clout and corporate organization to personally retaliate against the the violation of the Law is big and is Seri said the adding the attacks were carried out in a systematic Kim planned to Appeal the said Han wha spokesman jul Pakistan asks for Aid amid heavy floods Pakistan Paki Stan called on the International Community to Rush Aid to some 1 million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts monday that still More rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming floods due to a Cyclone and rain have left As Many As 100 peo ple dead in southwestern Paki a senior Relief official said but unofficial estimates Are considerably some 500 people have died across the subcontinent in a India and Afghanistan since the Start of the Monsoon sea son in general kidnapped priest Likely still alive Philippines the philippine military chief said monday there Are Strong indications an italian priest kidnapped by suspected Muslim insurgents last month is alive and More troops have been deployed to join a massive Hermogenes Esperon said he was confident that Giancarlo Bossi is still alive but declined to provide details to avoid disrupting efforts to free him or Force the kidnappers to move the priest to another Loca we have indications of life but we do not want to discuss the de tails because it could give away the he the 57yearold missionary from Milan was snatched in Southern Zamboanga Sib Ugay province on june 10 while on his Way to Cele brate report struggling taxi Driver returns Philippines he needed the Money for his sick wife and overdue but honesty prevented a motorcycle taxi Driver from keeping left behind by a Iluminado Boc returned the Money to police in to Guilaran City on Central Bohol Island last the philippine daily inquirer reported the woman who lost the bag of Cash had just reported it to police when Boc showed up at the it was not Boc was quoted As the owner rewarded him with about seven 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