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Saudi Ad Censors Woman, Replaces Her With Inflatable Ball
An ad by a Saudi company replacing a woman in a swim- ming pool with an inflatable ball has caused uproar on social media.
Posted on Twitter by retail company SACO on their offi- cial page, the
image features a family lounging in a swimming pool with a glaring difference
from the orig- inal image – as pointed out by a Twitter user who posted original image – there is an inflatable ball where there’s supposed to be the
woman. Other changes include pix- elated faces and blacked-out bodies of the man and two kids.
It did not take long before the stark differ- ences were noticed by the Twitteratis, who had a hard time compre- hending it.
One user
revealed
that it was not an isolated occurrence:
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has strict modesty rules, making it obligatory
for women to do hijab or wear abaya when they step outside their homes.
Last year, Saudi
police detained a young woman after receiving complaints that she removed her abaya on a main street in the capital Riyadh.
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