Naked road walk woman appeals prison sentence

The High Appeals Court has heard the appeal lodged by a European woman against a two-year imprisonment term handed down to her for walking naked on the road after consuming drugs last November. Her case was adjourned until April 29 to hear the closing arguments. 

The quadragenarian, who was apparently high on hashish, methamphetamine, and MDMA, was also charged with assaulting an on-duty policeman. She was fined BD150, while her boyfriend was ordered to spend one year behind bars and pay BD1,000 in fine for consuming drugs. The details of the case date back to last November when the woman was seen walking naked on one of the busiest highways in the Kingdom; Shaikh Salman Highway near Tubli.

A policeman and a bystander approached the woman in an attempt to convince her to move out of the highway, where she walked in the middle lane causing a traffic jam. According to the testimonies of the victims and eyewitnesses, the defendant punched, kicked and spat on the victims while attempting to escape from them. However, she was later arrested. Additionally, the footage of the woman went viral online, making headlines across the world.

During the interrogation, the defendant’s boyfriend said she worked as a manager at one of the resorts in the Kingdom. He told the prosecutors that they had both consumed alcohol and hashish on that night in the camping area in Sakheer. Additionally, the man claimed that the woman showed “strange signs” when they got back home and that she spoke in a language he couldn’t understand, adding that he believed that “she was possessed”.