The woman who was allegedly tortured by the Tabuk members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Hai'a, says she will never forgive them for allegedly assaulting her. The woman made these comments just as other Hai'a members in Tabuk are being blamed for the death of a young man during a botched sting operation. The operation was led by Hai'a members. The young woman, who is in her twenties, said she could not believe her ears when she first heard the allegations against her. “I will not pardon them even until doomsday. I will never ever forget their maltreatment,” she said this week. She denied that she ever approached a man to help her escape from her family in Tabuk to go to Jeddah. She said there was no question of her even trying to escape. On the day she was arrested by Hai'a members, she had been out looking for a job at a tailor's shop. This had been with the knowledge of her mother and brother, she added. She said she was not able to study at university because of financial problems. She was divorced three years ago and had no children. She was out looking for a job to help her family and to keep busy. She said she is ready to swear on the Holy Qur'an that she was not accompanying any man on the day she was arrested. The accusations made by the staffers were “untrue” and “completely false and baseless”. She said that it must be a case of mistaken identity. She demanded that the authorities investigate the incident and question the four staffers who allegedly abused her. She said she was indebted to the Tabuk people for their support and also thanked her family for their trust and confidence. She said she told investigators exactly what happed on the day. She was on her way to a well-known tailor shop to look for a job in the Al-Olya District at 5:30 P.M. She said she took a limousine from the doorstep of her house. She asked that if there had been a man with her, why the Hai'a members had not arrested him also. Informed sources, however, said that orders have been issued for the Hai'a staffers involved in the case to be suspended and for the man who made the accusations against her to be arrested. She produced a medical report from King Khaled Hospital in Tabuk showing bruises on her leg. She needed treatment for two days, she said. Hai'a blamed for man's death Meanwhile, the father of Kareem Slama Al-Attawi, who was shot dead by a citizen in Tabuk, has accused Hai'a staffers of helping the perpetrator to kill him. Al-Attawi was killed in Al-Nahda District behind King Khaled Hospital in Tabuk by a man who had accused him of sexually assaulting his 10-year-old son. The father was with the Hai'a when they went out looking for Al-Attawi. A Hai'a member was shot at and wounded in the chest apparently when he tried to stop the father from shooting Al-Attawi. Al-Attawi's father said his son was killed without any evidence against him. Defending his son, the father said he was a pious man, was married and had no children. He said he had no criminal record and was not a pedophile. He said his son was jobless but did some work with a small van to earn a living. He demanded that the Hai'a prove the accusations against his son. He said he had approached Al-Khaledyia Police Station where he was told that the Investigation and Prosecution Bureau (IPB) was looking into the case. He claimed that the murderer was being protected by security forces. For this reason he had reported the matter to Prince Fahd Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, the Emir of Tabuk, who assured him that justice will be done. The father said that all evidence pointed to the fact that the Hai'a staffers helped the man kill his son because they were the ones that were leading the sting operation. “He carried out his crime in cold blood in the presence of the Hai'a personnel without even taking time to verify whether [my son] was the person who committed the crime or not.” He said the staffers were aware of the fact that the father of the boy was carrying a gun. He said the staffers should tell the truth and clear the name of his son. Eyewitnesses who were at the scene of the crime said that while they were taking ablution for Maghreb prayers, they heard someone screaming and shouting: “The man will be killed.” They saw a man fire three bullets at a man in a small van. The eyewitnesses said that they saw the perpetrator and the Hai'a members chase a man who was sitting beside the murdered man but they could not catch him. After the chase the eyewitnesses claimed that the perpetrator and the Hai'a members fled the scene, leaving the dead man behind on the ground.
