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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 (...)
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JEDDAH — The Court of Appeals on Monday repealed an earlier Penal Court verdict claiming that that the Grand Mosque crane crash lawsuit does not fall under its jurisdiction.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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)