This is sad, but instructive. One week a businesswoman in Riyadh praised the freedom she had as a woman, saying the city had a bad reputation which it did not deserve. The following Monday, she sat with a male colleague in Starbucks, violating a strict law against “public contact between unrelated men and women.” Somehow the contact law doesn’t prohibit the strip search she received after her arrest. Fox News reports:

She was thrown in jail, strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the kingdom’s “Mutaween” police.

“When I was arrested, it was like going through an avalanche,” she said. “All of my beliefs were completely destroyed.”