Original sentence: According to the statements of parents, firemen, and the regular police forces present at the scene, the religious police forcibly prevented girls from escaping the burning school by locking the doors of the school from the outside, and barring firemen from entering the school to save the girls, beating some of the girls and civil defense personnel in the process.In July 2006 it was announced that the committee would no longer be allowed to interrogate those it arrests for behavior deemed un-Islamic.Mutaween would not allow the girls to escape or to be saved because they were `not properly covered,` and the mutaween did not want physical contact to take place between the girls and the civil defense forces for fear of sexual enticement.One of the most extreme examples of mutaween enforcement of Sharia law came in March of 2002, when 14 young girls died of burns or smoke asphyxiatation by an accidental fire that engulfed their public school in Mecca.Prior to this commission members enjoyed almost total power to arrest, detain, and interrogate those suspected of violating the Sharia...The CPVPV denied the charges of beating or locking the gates but the incident and the accounts of witnesses were reported in Saudi newspapers such as the Saudi Gazette and Al-Iqtisaddiyya.The result was a very rare public criticism of the group
Edited sentence: Commission members did enjoy almost total power to arrest, detain, and interrogate those even suspected of moral dissent.In July 2006 it was announced that the committee will no longer be allowed to interrogate those it arrests for behavior deemed un-Islamic stated by the interior ministry that was published on 25 May 2006.In March of 2002, they caused the deaths of several girls in Saudi Arabia by preventing them from leaving a burning school building.This incident resulted in a very rare public criticism of the group in official Saudi newspapers.Witnesses reported seeing religious police beating young girls trying to flee the burning building, because they weren't wearing the abaya