Word: mutaween
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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SAUDI ARABIA Improperly Dressed Interior Minister Prince Nayef defended Saudi religious police after press reports accused the mutaween of causing the deaths of 15 schoolgirls in a fire. The newspaper stories alleged that as the girls, aged between 13 and 17, tried to escape their burning school they were pushed back into the flames by police from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice because they were not wearing their black robes and headscarves. Prince Nayef claimed the police were there "to ensure that the girls were not subjected to any kind of mistreatment outside...