Lawyer Rejects Reports on Confessions by Vice Cops
Muhammad Al-Homaid; 30/4/08
A lawyer representing two members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice denied that his clients had confessed to being involved in last month’s fatal accident that killed four people near Madinah. Nasir Al-Jabri was referring to Arabic language media reports that said commission members confessed to pursuing moral-crime suspects, which would be in violation of Interior Ministry rules regarding what commission members can and cannot do in the execution of their duties. “The report of evidences with the Investigation and Prosecution Board showed that the commission members’ car did not bear any mark of contact or collision with the ill-fated car,” said the lawyer.
Media Deliberately Trying to Malign Us, Says Commission Chief
Badea Abu Al-Naja, 30/4/08
Western media is deliberately trying to malign the commission for unknown reasons, said the national head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in a wide ranging interview with Arab News. “Or else, why should a respectable institution be denigrated because a few of its officials committed some judgmental errors?” said Ibrahim Al-Ghaith, the commission president.Speaking about criticism that the commission goes beyond its jurisdiction and trespasses into people’s private lives, Al-Ghaith said such generalizations were unfair. “Interior Minister Prince Naif recently said that the commission is a governmental department and is prone to making mistakes like other departments,” he said.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=109451&d=30&m=4&y=2008&pix= kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Vice Commission