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5,080 terror suspects on trial – BIP
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 04 - 04 - 2011

RIYADH: The Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution (BIP) is continuing to prosecute terror suspects, with a total of 2,215 individuals so far brought to court, an official spokesman said Saturday.
“There have been 1,612 verdicts while the specialist penal court is currently looking into the cases of 603 accused persons,” the BIP spokesman said, adding that charge sheets are drawn up “as per Article 126 of the Penal Procedures Law”.
“The bureau is completing general charge sheets for 934 suspects and continuing investigations into 1,931 persons ahead of their referral to the specialist penal court. In total, there are 5,080 people who are either under investigation, are awaiting completion of judicial procedures, or have been convicted.”
Commenting later on the BIP statement, Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, said that the procedures constituted the results of the “promise made by Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior” to bring “cases related to the deviant group to court”.
Speaking to Saudi Television, Al-Turki said that the BIP's figures showed that 90 percent of detainees held by security authorities – a total of 5,696 individuals – are currently on trial or have been sentenced. 616 remain under investigation.
“5,831 persons have been released, constituting over 50 percent of the total handled by the security authorities in those cases,” he said. “184 of them were released in the first three months of this year.”
On the BIP figure that 1,931 persons are still being investigated prior to court referral, Al-Turki said that their confessions had been heard and that the results of the investigation were “being reviewed to determine the procedures to take with each one”.
“The attorney general does not bring a case against any suspect if he feels there is insufficient evidence against them,” he said. “The security authorities are fully committed to the regulatory measures for these cases and all their tasks are subjected to the laws governing them.”
Al-Turki made special mention of a Cabinet ruling brought into effect three years ago permitting extensions to the detention of suspects in terrorism cases of up to a year if deemed “in the interest of the investigation”. “The measure is not applied to every detainee, but to those whose suspected crimes require them to be put before the court while they are detained, and it happens after investigations with them have been completed,” he said.


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