"A British businessman living in Saudi Arabia was set upon and beaten up by members of the country's religious police after using a women-only cash till with his wife at a local supermarket.
Peter Howarth-Lees, who is married to a Saudi woman, was knocked to the ground and kicked by three members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as the Mutawa, who followed the couple out of the shop.
'While I was on the ground all three of them proceeded to kick me repeatedly in the head and back and then one of them stamped hard on my face,' he said in a statement to a local website. 'On seeing this, my wife got out of the car and somehow managed to push them off me and I managed to stand up.' His wife was kicked in the stomach."