{"id":15289,"date":"2026-04-10T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/saudi-arabia-imposes-fines-and-travel-bans-for-citizens-visiting-restricted-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:40:18","slug":"saudi-arabia-imposes-fines-and-travel-bans-for-citizens-visiting-restricted-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/saudi-arabia-imposes-fines-and-travel-bans-for-citizens-visiting-restricted-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Imposes Fines and Travel Bans for Citizens Visiting Restricted Countries\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-17.51.19.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Saudi Arabia has enacted new rules penalizing citizens who travel to restricted destinations, with fines reaching up to SR30,000 and travel bans of up to two years, following approval by Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The updated measures, effective as of March 31, 2026, are part of the Ministry of Interior\u2019s efforts to regulate travel to designated high-risk countries amid regional tensions. Authorities said the list of restricted destinations will be determined by the ministry after necessary procedures are followed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Under the new rules,&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/saudi-arabia-imposes-fines-and-travel-bans-for-citizens-visiting-restricted-countries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has enacted new rules penalizing citizens who travel to restricted destinations, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1159,1224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen","category-1224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}