A picture taken on January 19 2018 shows Saudi women and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah some 160 kilometres east of...
{"Image ImageDescription": "A picture taken on January 19, 2018 shows Saudi women and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometres east of Riyadh.\nFor decades the religious police, \"mutawa\" as they are known, wielded unbridled powers as arbiters of morality, patrolling streets and malls to snare women wearing bright nail polish and chastise men seeking contact with the opposite sex. In recent years, Saudi Arabia launched a series of reforms, including gradually diminishing the mutawa's powers to arrest. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has further cut back the political role of hardline clerics in a historic reordering of the Saudi state.\n / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE        (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)"}