Saudi authorities arrested four members of the notorious religious police who allegedly caused the death of a man and the injury of his wife and two children in a car chase, local media reported on Monday. “Security services arrested four members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice after they were interrogated (on Sunday) over the chase that killed a man and injured his wife and two children in Al-Baha” in the southwest, Okaz daily reported. The men will be charged with “abusing power, chasing a man with his family while ignoring instructions given to members of the committee completely banning chases,” the daily quoted a religious police official as saying. The feared religious police sometimes use unmarked cars to chase those they suspect of violating Islamic sharia law, such as unmarried couples. The English-language Saudi Gazette reported that the family was approached by a member of the committee “who complained their car stereo was on loudly.” The victim, identified by local media as 34-year-old Abdulrahman al-Ghamidi, then left with his family following an argument with the policeman who chased them, it said.
