Saudi closes broadcaster after sex confession
Agencies
Published: August 09, 2009, 12:53
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television network after it aired an interview with a Saudi man speaking about his sexual escapades, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
Mazen Abdul Jawad, 32, was arrested last month in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after shocking Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative countries in the world, by recounting details of his sexual exploits on Lebanese channel LBC.
The divorced father of four spoke to camera from his bedroom in Jeddah about how couples can spice up their sex lives.
"Everything happens in this room," he said on an episode of the show Ahmar Bilkhat Al Areed (Wide Red Lines), before launching into descriptions of tricks for cruising women on the streets of Jeddah.
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A spokesman for the ministry of culture and information in Riyadh said a committee had decided to close the Jeddah office of LBC because of the interview.
The daily Al Watan newspaper said authorities also closed other offices of LBC, which is mainly owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, in the kingdom.
Abdul Jawad has been charged with publicising vice and lawyers say he may face the death penalty.
Source: Gulfnews.com
(This is an update of previous news on QL)
sorry..
A good move by the Saudis..
Have they closwed just the offices or stopped it from transmitting / making programs.
Sad how people don't think what their actions could do to their families. What did his children do to deserve such embarrassment and shame from their own father? And the death penalty? -- Allah yirhamna ibrahmitah inshallah ..
What ever happened to privacy, secrecy, whatever else? -- What has this world come to?
real old...
What's updated? Looks like the same story to me?
I am so sure that he knew what the consequences would be after being interviewed,so stupid of him.
Did he forget where he was??
"OH BOY, OH BOY!!"
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