Saudi Arabia

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In the same year, the court held sessions to try human rights activists, including the activist Muhammad Al-Bajadi, one of the founders of the Association for Civil and Political Rights in Saudi Arabia (ACPRA), Mubarak bin Za’ir, the activist in the file of detainees, and the protester Khaled Al-Juhani, who was arrested after he publicly demanded freedom and democracy in Saudi Arabia in The framework of the protests that took place in the country in 2011 during an interview with the BBC Arabic TV team. The court convicted 16 human rights activists to sentences ranging from 5 to 30 years on November 22, 2011.

In 2009, the king made a number of significant changes to the judiciary's personnel at the highest levels by bringing in a new generation of young people. Where he appointed a new Minister of Justice and a new head of the Supreme Judicial Council, as it was known that the outgoing president opposed the codification of Sharia. The king appointed a new head of the Board of Grievances, and Abd al-Rahman bin Abd al-Aziz appointed the college as the first chief judge of the new Supreme Court. As of January 2013, a royal decree was issued under the chairmanship of the Minister of Justice of the Supreme Judicial Council, of which the President of the Supreme Court is one of its members. In April 2020, Saudi Arabia reduced the powers of disciplinary rulings that were left to the interpretations of judges as part of a human rights reform plan, as it suspended death sentences as a punishment for people who had not completed 18 years of age at the time they committed the punishable act, and this included the perpetrators of terrorist crimes against whom final rulings were issued, and it was also abolished. The penalty of flogging and decided to replace it with imprisonment or a fine, or with alternative penalties, according to the regulations or decisions issued by the guardian in this regard.



law enforcement
See also: Saudi General Investigation and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
The police department in the Saudi Ministry of Interior is divided into three forces: the regular police, the secret police, and the religious police.

Regular and secret police

A police car in Saudi Arabia.
General Security is the official name for the regular police force. It handles most of the day-to-day police activities. It is a centralized force usually headed by a member of the royal family. The "secret police" or "general investigations" deal with domestic security and counterintelligence. It runs Ulaysha prison in Riyadh where mabahith prisoners are held. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has objected to the arbitrary detention by the Investigation Department in Al-Ulaysha prison.


Translated from

صيغة توكيل محامي سعودي