Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi man has been arrested over charges linked to his televised boasts of sexual exploits, outraging religious conservatives in the Muslim state, newspapers reported on Saturday.
Police detained Mazen Abdul-Jawad at an apartment in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah early on Friday, fingerprinted and turned him over to criminal investigators, the Saudi Gazette said.
Two other men who allegedly participated in Abdul-Jawad's segment on the Lebanon-based LBC network's "Red Line" programme have also been detained, the newspaper said.
Jeddah police spokesman Suleiman al-Mutawae told another daily, Arab News, that Abdul-Jawad faces charges under Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic sharia law code.
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Arab News had initially reported his arrest on July 23.
The detailing of his sexual life on the television programme in mid-July was "a violation of the shariah regulations on the one hand and against Saudi customs on the other," Mutawae said.
Abdul-Jawad said on the programme, which is also popular in Saudi Arabia, that he first had sex with a neighbour when he was 14 and described in detail some of his later adventures.
Abdul-Jawad explained how he uses the Bluetooth function on his cellphone to try to pick up Saudi women, who are forbidden to mix with or reveal their faces to men who are not relatives.
He has publicly apologised for the show, saying that the producers had tricked him into some of his account and promised not to reveal his name or show his face.
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