Women were recently banned from entering a Starbucks in the Saudi capital Riyadh, by the country’s religious police.
The incident occurred when a gender segregation wall (required by authorities at all restaurants in KSA) collapsed inside a branch of Starbucks in KSA.
Arabic language daily newspaper Al Weaam reports, the religious police barred women from the premises after a segregation wall collapsed several times in the coffee chain.
According to Al Weaam, Saudi’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordered the café’s management to not allow women on the premises, after finding the division wall collapsed during a routine inspection.
Management at the outlet claimed that the wall had collapsed several times due to customer stampedes.
Women trying to enter the Starbucks in Riyadh subsequently found a sign on the door, reading: "On order by the Commission… please no women allowed in… women can send in their drivers to buy for them.”
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