Riyadh, May 12 (ANI): Saudi King Abdullah has reportedly sacked one of his most hardline advisers who opposed moves to relax gender segregation.
Sheikh Abdelmohsen al-Obeikan, who was an adviser to the royal cabinet, is an outspoken critic of the sexes mingling outside the home.
The dismissal comes shortly after Sheikh Obeikan attacked plans by "influential people to corrupt Muslim society by trying to change the natural status of women," the BBC reports.
According to the report, Saudi officials did not give a reason for Sheikh Obeikan's departure.
Obeikan's recent comments were taken to be an attack on tentative steps towards relaxing some stricter interpretations of Saudi law.
King Abdullah has promised women the right to vote in future elections, opened the country's first co-educational university and introduced measures against domestic violence. (ANI)
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