First female-run alcohol factory uncovered in Saudi Arabia

A group of women, from Africa, were caught running a bootleg operation inside Saudi Arabia. I find it pretty impressive that women, who are already opressed in Saudi Arabia, can find the entrepreneurial spirit to brew alcohol and sell it which is prohibited by islamic law. AKI

Riyadh, 20 feb.(AKI) - Saudi religious police say they have uncovered the country's first female-run alcohol factory, in the eastern city of Dammam. Alcohol production and consumption is strictly forbidden in Saudi Arabia, which adheres to the fundamentalist Wahabi interpretation of Islam.

The alleged illegal alcohol factory was located inside an empty house, where religious police said they had in recent weeks noted a number of foreign women carrying containers into and from the house.

During a raid on the building on Thursday, police arrested a group of African women they allege were running the factory. All the women are aged between 35 and 45 years of age. Police did not state their nationalities.