The death penalty also applies to people caught smuggling illegal narcotics into the country.

Although the Saudi government is said to have released an "official statement", Saudi Arabia's U. Embassy and Saudi sources at the United Nations have yet to comment or confirm the law.

In Saudi Arabia there are no specific statutes or laws to govern by.

The sole constitution that is used is the Quran, which all judges have to interpret conservatively.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, there was continued world pressure for the Saudi government to crack down on the radical imams preaching anti-American rhetoric in Saudi mosques.

There were no attacks against American forces and Westerners in the country until after 1995.According to the Heart Cry Missionary Society, the Saudi government issued an official statement signifying that capital punishment may now be used on those who smuggle Bibles into the desert nation, where the royal family upholds a strict Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam.The society's report added that the death penalty, which usually comes in the form of beheadings, can also be used against people who simply distribute the Bible and all other "publications that have prejudice to any other religious belief other than Islam." This means that anyone handing out any kind of religious literature that is not of Islamic faith can legally be executed.Any girl that shows up to school with a hint of red is barred from entry and is sent home to change whatever it is that is red.The usual reasoning for banning anything red on Valentine’s Day is to discourage people from celebrating it (as it is not an Islamic occasion and it may lead people “astray”) and to prevent people dating or from having any contact outside marriage.Many actions that are considered illegal have no actual written laws to ban them – a lot of them are not even addressed in the Quran.Some of these bans also occur in other countries, but this list is specifically about Saudi Arabia since I was born there and I grew up (along with millions of others) shackled by these laws.Regional and kin-based tribal and clan identities are shared among Saudi Arabian citizens. Saudi Arabia occupies 868,730 square miles (2,250,000 square kilometers).It is bounded on the east by the Arabian (Persian) Gulf; on the west by the Red Sea; to the south and southeast by Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar; and to the north and northeast by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.Anti-Western attacks have occurred in Saudi Arabia dating back to 1995.Saudi Arabia itself has been accused of funding terrorism in other countries, The US military sent forces to Saudi Arabia in 1990 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. presence, as it violated a Muslim tradition of excluding non-Muslim from permanent residence in the Arabian peninsula.Also, all students in public schools are forced to learn and adhere to Sunni traditions.With up to 2 million Christians currently in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government has often detained people for religious reasoning.Also, Saudi Arabia ranks sixth on the Open Door's Ministry 2014 World Watch List of most repressive countries for Christians.The International Religious Freedom report stated that Saudi customs agents often open mail to screen for any banned religious literature, which also includes Sunni literature that is ruled offensive to Salafi traditions.