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HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, has said the new Personal Status Law takes into account the latest legal trends and modern judicial practices in order to keep pace with changes. ....
3 August 2021, 00:01 UTC Saudi Arabian authorities have brazenly intensified the persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents and stepped up executions over the past six months, following a lull in prosecutions of activists and a sharp decline in use of the death penalty during Saudi Arabia’s G20 presidency last year, said Amnesty International in a new briefing published today.
Saudi Arabia’s post-G20 crackdown on expression documents how since Saudi Arabia handed over the G20 presidency, authorities have prosecuted, sentenced or ratified sentences of at least 13 people, following grossly unfair trials before the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC). After an 85% fall in recorded executions in 2020 at least 40 people were put to death between January and July 2021 – more than during the whole of 2020. ....
Judicial reform set to improve Saudi competitiveness Talat Zaki Hafiz Short Url https://arab.news/bn9wa Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced the reform of four new laws to the Kingdom’s judicial institutions. The four laws are the Personal Status Law, the Civil Transactions Law, the Penal Code for Discretionary Sentences, and the Law of Evidence. It is worth noting that such reforms are part of the long process of structural reforms to the judicial system in Saudi Arabia. The Justice Ministry has completed a number of projects in the past few months, including, but not limited to, the launch of e-services and the creation of notary positions for women. Other recent developments include the inauguration of labor courts and the documenting of judicial hearings in audio and video. ....
Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities ....