Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an 'emo' hairstyle Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts reported the Daily Mail and Al Arabiya in March 2012. Activists told the Lebanon-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances... 

Secondary school students sit at the Abu Baker Al Arabi government school in Riyadh Gays, tomboys and “emos” can no long enter public schools and universities in Saudi Arabia, until they change their appearance and behavior. That is how the country has chosen to tackle the spread of these “phenomena”. ­The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the country’s...