RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ordered its Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to start enforcing the nation’s ban on gay and “tom boy” students from universities and lower level schools. The Commission is one of the most feared police instruments of the autocratic Middle Eastern country.

The Arabic language newspaper Sharq reported this week that “Instructions have been issued to all public schools and universities to ban the entry of gays and tom boys, and to intensify their efforts to fight this phenomenon, which has been promoted by some websites.”

Saudi students will be permitted to return to classes only if they can “prove they have been corrected and have stopped such practices.”

Homosexuality is a capital crime punishable by death in the Muslim nation of 27 million.