Association of human rights: about 4,400 detainees in the prisons of Saudi intelligence

Announced the National Assembly for Human Rights is an informal body, the number of detainees in the prisons of the General Intelligence in Saudi Arabia has about 4,400 Reserve, including seven women.A report of the Assembly that the total number of prisoners and detainees of 4396 people, including 240 on remand awaiting and 1137 refer them to the prosecution and 1450 viewed the prosecution in their files.It is the total number of prisoners and detainees referred 827 to the SCC and 742 had received sentences and 473 sentences are subject to discrimination and 269 did not distinguish their judgments.The report stressed that "competent authorities" follow the procedures relating to the release of detainees who have "blood on their hands have not spilled the blood or the atonement related to the bombings or the other," and terminally sick of them.He noted that the prison administration is working to not be confused with the detainees in order to avoid the effect of some ideas.The report was issued after visits by a delegation from the Assembly of the detective's prisons in a number of regions of the Kingdom and there he met staff and prisoners and detainees.The associations defending human rights is often denounces the existence of "tens of thousands" of detainees in Saudi prisons.The Association for Civil Rights and Political Rights in Saudi Arabia (resolved), which was founded by 11 militants jurist and academic in 2009 announced earlier that authorities were "detained without trial of tens of thousands of prisoners for political reasons." 


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