Forced Religious Conversion
Under the law, children of Saudi parents are considered Muslim, regardless of the country or the religious tradition in which they may have been raised. In some cases, children raised in other countries and in other religious traditions who came to Saudi Arabia or who were taken by their Saudi fathers to Saudi Arabia reportedly were coerced to conform to Islamic norms and practices. Some have argued that early Islamic scripture and law forbids forced conversion in theory,
In July 2012, two men who had given religion to a young woman who subsequently converted to Christianity were arrested in the Saudi Gulf city Al-Khobar, on charges of "forcible conversion". The girl's father had laid charges against the two men after he failed to convince the young woman to return home from Lebanon and abandon her new faith.
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