Saudi
Arabia says it
didn't ban 'Pokémon Go'
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.
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On Twitter, the council —
Saudi Arabia's top religious establishment — said the new game
requires a new opinion 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 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.
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