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A video of a pair of veiled young women being harassed by a gang of men in Saudi Arabia sparked anger in the conservative Islamic nation - but now the victims face a police investigation.

Police in the coastal city of Jeddah arrested a man suspected of harassing the women after the video was circulated on social media.

In the footage the women are seen screaming and appealing for help as the men loom over them laughing and jeering.

Al Arabiya quoted police spokesman Colonel Aati bin Attiyah Al-Qurashi, who said: "Jeddah police, intend to find out who was involved, expose their identities, summon them and take the appropriate legal measures against them."

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The incident sparked debate about the harassment of women in Saudi Arabia.

But the situation changed when another video emerged, which appeared to show the two same women riding a quad bike and tossing a man an 'agal' - or rope that Arab men use to secure their headdress.

This behaviour was seen as 'provocative' and 'indecent' and Saudi religious authorities are investigating them.

Judicial adviser Yehia al-Shahrani told Sabq he believes the women acted in a “seductive and tempting” manner.

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He added legal action against the men could not be considered “without taking the same deserved action against those who seduced and aroused this to happen, which are the two girls.”

Last month a woman who was tailed by Saudi Arabia's strict religious police gave them a taste of their own medicine by filming them.

In a video posted to YouTube the woman, who gives her name as Fatima Ibrahim Hussein, was shopping with her husband in central Riyadh.

In the clip filmed from a mobile phone she shows six muttawa religious officers following her, accusing her of dressing provocatively as she is wearing eye make-up.

Refusing to be cowed she films the men and challenges them to identify themselves, which they fail to do.

She continues to protest, declaring: "My name is Fatima Ibrahim Hussein. Tell me what your name is if you're a real man".

The men then ask her to leave because she is wearing make-up.

However, they eventually back off and drift away after she continues to film and refuses to back down.

Saudi Arabia enforces a version of Sharia law enforced by patrols, who enforce strict rules of behaviour and dress.