{"id":21662,"date":"2020-03-23T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/selfie-ban-in-saudi-arabia-makkah-and-madina-region\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:32:59","slug":"selfie-ban-in-saudi-arabia-makkah-and-madina-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=21662","title":{"rendered":"Selfie Ban in Saudi Arabia: Makkah and Madina Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>After the ban on selfies, Saudi Arabia has now announced a ban on taking photos and making videos in Makkah and Madina.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the sources the decision prohibits photos and videos being taken in Mecca\u2019s Masjid al-Haram, known as the &#8216;<em>Great Mosque&#8217;<\/em> of Mecca, and Medina\u2019s &#8216;<em>Masjid an-Nabawi<\/em>&#8216;, or &#8216;<em>The Prophet\u2019s Mosque&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ban also applies to the mosques&#8217; surrounding areas. The ban was imposed to protect and preserve the holy sites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi authorities cited disturbance of worshippers at the mosques as another reason for the introduction of the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security guards have been instructed to &#8216;<em>confiscate the photos and the camera if needed<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the ban on selfies, Saudi Arabia has now announced a ban on taking photos and making videos in Makkah and Madina. According to the sources the decision prohibits photos and videos being taken in Mecca\u2019s Masjid al-Haram, known as the &#8216;Great Mosque&#8217; of Mecca, and Medina\u2019s &#8216;Masjid an-Nabawi&#8216;, or &#8216;The Prophet\u2019s Mosque&#8217; The ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}