November 28, 2003

Banned Camera Phones Selling Like Hot Cakes in Jeddah's Black Market

Mobile camera phones are hot sellers this Eid season - a celebration to mark the end of Islam's holiest season - despite a Kingdomwide ban and a significant increase in retail price, according to Arab News.

"The phones were banned in September last year at the urging of the chief of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice following reports that they were being used by men to secretly photograph women. But that has not stopped the phones from being sold.

New models by mobile phone giants Sony Ericsson and Nokia are selling like hot cakes in a healthy black market."

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