The Kingdom asserted here today on continuing exerting efforts to consolidate and protect human rights, proceeding form the principles of Islamic law of Sharia. This was unfolded, as the Saudi Ambassador to the Geneva-based UN Headquarters Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wassel, who emphasized the Kingdom unflinching stance that calling for the universality of the human rights does not mean to impose principles and values contravening with fixed verses of Islamic Sharia. In regard of the death punishment, he pointed out that the Kingdom does not apply it, except against the most dangerous crimes, with utmost limits, and that such a verdict does not issued by a court, in accordance with the applicable law, as set forth by prescribed legal and judicial regulations, that passes through various judicial stages, that guarantee the defendants just trial. On the situation in Bahrain, he defended tangible efforts exerted by the Kingdom of Bahrain to defend itself against terrorism and plans to destabilize the country. Concluding his intervention, the Saudi Ambassador said that what the High Commissioner reported, in regard of the Palestinian people suffering and hardship, is but a miniature of what if faces of flagrant violations of their human rights, at the hands of almost 60 years of Israeli ongoing occupation, reiterating calling the international community to shoulder its responsibility and took necessary measurements to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people and to Israeli authorities recklessness towards UN resolutions and ending by stressing the Palestinian people right to establish its independent state with Al-Quds, as the capital.
