Following the mysterious death of a disabled resident at the Madinah Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center, Abdullah Al-Yusuf, undersecretary for social services at the Ministry of Social Affairs, has vowed to resign if his ministry is proven (...)
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Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH – A high level committee is studying a directive that makes it mandatory for senior officials to receive petitioners and listen to their complaints three times weekly.
The Control and Investigation Board (...)
Sheikh Dr. Abdul Lateef Aal Al-Sheikh, the chief of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a), has slammed mall owners for hiring personnel to act as Hai'a staff members.
Aal Al-Sheikh was responding to news that (...)
The government plans to convert 16 palaces built during the reign of King Abdul Aziz, the founder of the modern Saudi state, into museums and heritage centers, said Prince Sultan Bin Salman, Chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and (...)
Officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) will be tasked with promoting virtue and preventing vice without getting involved in wrongdoing themselves, said Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif Bin Abdulaziz Aal (...)
There will be no shortage in pilgrim accommodations this year despite the demolition of more than 1,600 residential units for the northern expansion work of Haram, said Osama Al-Bar, Makkah mayor.
Existing hotels and apartment complexes can (...)
Ghaith, General President of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, has said the Commission has no powers to stop festivals or stop people enjoying themselves.
Al-Ghaith said violations found by the Commission at Eid (...)