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Articles of the author Hussain Hazazi Adnan Al Shibrawi
Illegal expatriates escaping penalties through deportation
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — A number of illegal expatriates who are legally sentenced to various penalties have tried to escape these sentences by giving themselves in to the authorities for deportation during the current grace period. Saturday is (...)

21 - 06 - 2017
Court of Appeals returns crane case to Penal Court
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Court of Appeals on Monday repealed an earlier Penal Court verdict claiming that that the Grand Mosque crane crash lawsuit does not fall under its jurisdiction. In January, the Penal Court by a majority (2-1) verdict (...)

03 - 05 - 2017
Crane collapse case: Appeal period expires
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Appeal period for sentences issued in the crane collapse case expired last Sunday. Many people were killed and injured when a crawler crane toppled over onto the Grand Mosque in Makkah in September 2015. A source said the (...)

02 - 04 - 2017
Smoking ban in public areas takes effect
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Anti-smoking laws that took effect last week prohibit smoking in eight public areas. A royal decree was issued 12 months ago approving new regulations to curb smoking in the Kingdom. "The regulations came into force on (...)

13 - 06 - 2016
50 Saudi women granted right to travel without male guardian
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Fifty Saudi women were granted the right to travel without the need of a mahram (a relative who is male guardian). Tarahum Committee member and Takamul Initiative for Legal Consultancy lawyer Nisreen Al-Ghamdi said 50 (...)

07 - 06 - 2016
Municipality and ministry sued
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The heirs of a businessman have sued the municipality and the Ministry of Finance for demolishing properties owned by their father. A source familiar with the cases said the Jeddah Court is continuing to look into the (...)

01 - 03 - 2016
Social Affairs acts to reclaim ineligible insurance payouts
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Ministry of Social Affairs began withdrawing social insurance from ineligible recipients. The ministry's supervisor for legal affairs, Abdulaziz Al-Qurayyan, said the ministry has already removed a total of 107,000 (...)

16 - 02 - 2016
Man jailed for slandering ex-wife
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Court of Appeals upheld a verdict issued by a lower court sentencing a man to six months' imprisonment, 75 lashes and publishing his apology in two newspapers for defaming his ex-wife. A source at Jeddah Criminal (...)

18 - 01 - 2016
All suspects have right to lawyers: BIP chief
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution has said all suspects in criminal cases have the right to appoint their own lawyers to defend them. Head of the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution Sheikh (...)

21 - 12 - 2015
Protection home head cleared of blame in escape of inmates
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Ministry of Social Affairs has announced that it will not penalize the director of the protection home from where four inmates had escaped recently. Ministry of Social Affairs spokesman Abdullah Al-Tawi said the (...)

29 - 11 - 2015
3 women missing from shelter found; police looking for fourth
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — Police located three residents of a women's shelter home who escaped with a fourth one from the home by breaking the glass of an emergency exit. Director of the Ministry of Social Affairs' Makkah office Abdullah Al-Tawi (...)

22 - 10 - 2015
Death sentence sought for rapist
Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The general attorney has sought death sentence for a convicted rapist. The 25-year-old man was found guilty of kidnapping a 21-year-old woman and raping her with two accomplices. "The woman was leaving her college and (...)

13 - 10 - 2015
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