Abdul Aziz Kassar was on Friday evening, October 23, arrested by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in a shopping mall in the capital Riyadh for mixing with unrelated women.
The Saudi actor who lives in Kuwait said that he had not expected the rousing welcome that led to his arrest by the religious police as he was being mobbed by several women who were taking pictures and selfies with him.
The religious police said that the artist who was on a working visit to Riyadh was disturbing public order, mixing with women unrelated to him and abusing social media, and remanded him to custody.
However, Al Kassar who was later released, told Gulf Rotana private television station that he had arrived on Thursday in Saudi Arabia on a work trip.
