The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) has announced it has received 500 complaints against 15 ministries in Saudi Arabia. An NSHR report said that the Ministry of Education topped the list with 220 complaints, followed by 58 against the Ministry of Civil Service, 56 against the Ministry of Health, 51 against the Ministry of Higher Education, and 35 against the Ministry of Agriculture. The remainder of the complaints were directed at the Ministry of Social Affairs with 17, the same number at Municipal and Rural Affairs, 10 at Water and Electricity, eight at Transportation, eight at Civil Defense, eight at Islamic Affairs, five at Trade and Industry, four at Culture and Information, and three at the Ministry of Finance. Complaints covered a range of fields including arbitrary dismissal, financial rights, trespassing, travel prevention, psychological violence, arbitrary transfer, medical error, illegal pursuit, and forced deportation. Four hundred complaints were brought by persons of Saudi nationality, 300 of whom were males.
