Meeting of the Saudi Cabinet (Picture: Getty Images)

The UK is not the only country looking at dealing with pornography, Saudi Arabian authorities are using all methods at their disposal to take illicit images and videos out of reach from its population.

The Saudi Religious Police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, has hacked and disabled over 9,000 Twitter accounts belonging those the regime believed to be associated with promoting porn.

According to Vice, the kingdom’s authorities have already blocked over 400,000 porn sites.

Those found guilty of producing and disseminating the material could face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to three million Saudi Riyals (£520,000).




Observers have described the regime’s approach to pornography akin to their treatment of blasphemy and gambling, blaming it for a spike in the Saudi divorce rate.

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