Via Daily Mail:

A man has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for wearing a cartoon costume of a woman showing skin.

The country’s morality police swooped on the suspect who was dressed as a mascot for the opening of a sweet shop in Kharaj city near the capital Riyadh.

He was accused of not complying with the strict Islamic dress code which requires women to cover themselves in public.

Pictures posted on social media show the giant mascot being apprehended by officers and the costume bundled in the back of the police car. [….]

The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, as it is officially known, is responsible for ensuring Islamic laws like those are not broken in public.

But it has repeatedly been accused of human rights violations.

In 2002, the committee refused to allow female students out of a burning school in the holy city of Mecca because they were not wearing correct head cover.