New York Times:

The religious police of Saudi Arabia were searching on Tuesday for a woman who appeared in a video online in which she wears a miniskirt and crop top, exposing her legs and midriff in violation of the country’s strict dress code for women.

The video of the woman, identified online only as “Khulood,” prompted a debate on social media soon after it was uploaded to Snapchat over the weekend. It was rapidly shared across the internet by people who supported her display and — perhaps more interesting — by those who opposed it, resulting in an official investigation.

In the short clip, filmed mostly from behind, the woman is shown walking through the ruins of an ancient fort in Ushaiager, a town in Najd Province. Najd is the birthplace of the country’s ultraconservative Wahhabi religious movement.

In response to calls for the woman’s arrest, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which employs the Saudi religious police, wrote on Twitter on Monday that it had “intercepted a clip of a girl in inappropriate clothing” and had opened an investigation with the “relevant authorities.”

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