Because hugs are “un-Islamic.”

Via Emirates 24/7:

Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested two young local men for carrying a banner reading “free hug” in a public place.

The two said they were responding to another Saudi who appeared in a YouTube film calling for other men to join him in carrying this banner.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested the two men in Riyadh for violating local laws, Al Hayat daily said.