Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (officially) has never shied away from riling women-rights supporters/advocates with its laws, which reeks of male chauvinism.

With proper detailing to dress codes, it dictates a woman to wear loose-fitting, full-length robes known as "abayas" in public.

Other restrictions for women include: banned from driving, separated from unrelated men, and must be accompanied by or receive written permission from a male guardian - usually a father, husband or brother - if they want to travel, work or access healthcare.

So it wasn't surprising when a woman, whose appearance in a video wearing 'immodest' clothes did the rounds, was picked up by police for questioning.

Blasphemy must be handed strictly, and Saudi Arabia has set itself a very high standard in that regard.

According to the video, the young woman was seen taking a tour of a historic fort at Ushayqir Heritage Village, wearing a miniskirt and a crop-top in public.

By the time it became viral (and for all the wrong reasons) she had managed to offend a large section of the kingdom's loyal subjects.

Calling for her head, the upset brigade took to social media to pass on their judgement.

Finally on Tuesday the police booked her.

But looking back at some of the things they have done in the past, this seemed justifiable.

Where on earth do you have a family therapist telling you how to 'beat your wife'? Well, Saudi Arabia does, for a start.

In April 2016 a video of a Saudi therapist, Khaled Al-Saqaby, was translated and released by Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute.

With dismay and horror that stretched a good part of four minutes, the world witnessed the therapist talk about the subject with ease.

He justified that the (gruesome) exercise "is to discipline, not to vent one's anger".

"The necessary Islamic conditions for beating must be met," he said. (Halal only)

"The beating should not be performed with a rod... nor should it be a headband... or a sharp object, which, I am sad to say, some husbands use," he says explaining the rules (why does it even exist?), "It should be done with something like the sewak tooth-cleaning twig - or with a handkerchief."   

"Because the goal is merely to make the wife feel that she was wrong in the way she treated her husband," Al-Saqaby explained.

The final few slides surmises the problem that Saudi Arabia has with women (though unintentionally).

"Unfortunately, some wives want to live a life of equality with their husband," he said, "This is a very grave problem."

According to a 2016 study conducted by Roaya Center for Social Studies, 83 percent of violence committed against women in Saudi is physical.

Speaking about the anomaly, Psychiatrist Matar Al-Zahrani said that it was due to the prevailing mentality.

"Marital disputes may be the result of earlier educational traditions transmitted through generations among children who used to see their mothers being scolded, hit and humiliated by the father without taking any deterrent action because of traditions, of course, or because of fear or weakness,' he said.

A large number of these cases go unreported due to lack of support from the society.

The problem is indeed grave, and till such mentality is not forsaken, women rights in Saudi Arabia will always be a moribund patient.