Female influencer is arrested in Saudi Arabia for 'immoral' content
Female influencer is arrested in Saudi Arabia for ‘immoral’ content after she posted live video inviting a woman over and bragging ‘you’ll scream from how much fun we’ll have’
- Tala Safwan was arrested in Riyadh after she posted the video with female friend
- Friend says she won’t come over because it’s 3.30am, Safwan reportedly says: ‘Even better, because everyone will be asleep and they won’t hear what I’ll do’
- Riyadh police said they had arrested a resident who broadcast ‘talking to another with sexual content and suggestion that would prejudice morals’
A female influencer has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for posting ‘immoral’ content after she uploaded a live video inviting a woman over in the early hours of the morning.
Tala Safwan, from Egypt, was arrested in Riyadh after she posted the video in which she asks her female Saudi friend to come over at 3.30am because she is lonely.
Her friend says she won’t come over because it is too late and Safwan reportedly says, ‘Even better, because everyone will be asleep and they won’t hear what I’ll do to you,’ according to Al Jazeera.
Tala Safwan (left), from Egypt, was arrested in Riyadh after she posted the video in which she asks her female Saudi friend to come over at 3.30am because she is lonely (pictured)
She allegedly adds: ‘They won’t hear your screams… from how much fun we’ll be having.’
Safwan has not been named by police but they did post a blurred version of the offending video to their Twitter account.
They wrote: ‘The Riyadh police arrested a resident who appeared in a broadcast talking to another with sexual content and suggestion that would prejudice public morals.’
Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia.
Her friend says she won’t come over because it is too late and Safwan reportedly says, ‘Even better, because everyone will be asleep and they won’t hear what I’ll do to you’
Safwan, who has five million followers on TikTok and more than 800,000 subscribers on YouTube, said the clip had been taken out of context from the full video in order to cause a scandal.
It comes just days after the Saudi media regulator demanded that YouTube remove advertisements that it considers offensive to the country’s Muslim values and principles. The regulator threatened to take legal action if nothing was done.
The announcement followed complaints by Saudi parents that their children were being exposed to inappropriate content in ads broadcast on YouTube.
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