The National Human Rights Society (NHRS) is to carry out new field research in rural areas to report on health and education services and general detention conditions at police stations, traffic police offices and Passports Department offices. The society will make reports based on its observations and pass them on to the relevant authorities. The tours of rural areas are scheduled to take place over the next few weeks and will focus on regions not covered by previous studies and that have no NHRS branch. Muflih Al-Qahtani, vice president of NHRS, said that the society mostly received complaints about health and education services, and noted a failure in some quarters to treat issues with the necessary seriousness. “Around 20 percent of human rights cases haven't been successful for various reasons, among them the lack of response from some authorities,” Al-Qahtani said. The NHRS Eastern Province branch will begin its first tour in the regions of Jubail and Al-Khafji and Hafr Al-Batin since its Dammam branch was opened. Abduljalil Aal Saif, Chief Supervisor of the Eastern Province branch, said the branch had dealt with more than 12,000 mostly administrative and family cases, and had carried out more than 15 visits to prisons and detention cells, centers for rehabilitation and social care, social service centers and numerous charities, as well as vocational institutions and Al-Amal Mental Health Hospital. – Okaz/SG __
