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07-21-2016, 11:25 PM
Saudi Arabia says it didn't ban 'Pokémon Go'
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Officials in Saudi Arabia are denying reports they banned Pokémon Go in the country.*
The country's Council of Senior Religious Scholars, which issued a fatwa against the Pokémon card game in 2001, took to Twitter Thursday to deny reports they recently renewed the old ban in response to the Pokémon Go mobile game.
SEE ALSO: Pokemon Go shouldn't be as good as it is (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/pokemon-go-analysis/)
On Twitter, the council — Saudi Arabia's top religious establishment — said the new game requires a new opinion (https://twitter.com/ssa_at/status/756119016050139136) and said previous media reports *that the game had been banned were incorrect.*
A spokesperson for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and Information also denied the reports in a statement (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nintendo-pokemon-saudi-idUSKCN10126Z) to Reuters. "The Council of Senior Religious Scholars denied that it issued a new fatwa about the Pokemon game, and the media reports of that are **t accurate," Abdulmohsen Alyas, undersecretary for international communication and media, said Thursday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/saudi-arabia-pokemon-go/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Officials in Saudi Arabia are denying reports they banned Pokémon Go in the country.*
The country's Council of Senior Religious Scholars, which issued a fatwa against the Pokémon card game in 2001, took to Twitter Thursday to deny reports they recently renewed the old ban in response to the Pokémon Go mobile game.
SEE ALSO: Pokemon Go shouldn't be as good as it is (http://mashable.com/2016/07/12/pokemon-go-analysis/)
On Twitter, the council — Saudi Arabia's top religious establishment — said the new game requires a new opinion (https://twitter.com/ssa_at/status/756119016050139136) and said previous media reports *that the game had been banned were incorrect.*
A spokesperson for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and Information also denied the reports in a statement (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nintendo-pokemon-saudi-idUSKCN10126Z) to Reuters. "The Council of Senior Religious Scholars denied that it issued a new fatwa about the Pokemon game, and the media reports of that are **t accurate," Abdulmohsen Alyas, undersecretary for international communication and media, said Thursday. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/saudi-arabia-pokemon-go/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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