Human rights organizations react to new wave of detainees in Saudi Arabia.
Referring to the new detainees in Saudi Arabia, a human rights organization said that the lack of transparency and a fair judiciary has undermined the human rights situation in the country.
The lack of transparency in detention campaigns in Saudi Arabia undermines human rights, the human rights organization Sindh said.
The organization added that fears about the fate of new detainees in the judiciary and bias against the morale of decision-makers in Saudi Arabia are growing.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has highlighted the lack of transparency in the judiciary, trials, lawsuits and even new campaigns of arrests in Saudi Arabia, saying the anti-corruption case is a source of concern threatening human rights in Saudi Arabia.
The human rights group said what is known as the Anti-Corruption Agency in Saudi Arabia announced a few days before the arrest of 207 officials, including ministry staff, on the pretext of bribery, abuse of influence and other charges.
In this regard, the judiciary issued eight different prison sentences and fines for the detainees of these 207 citizens, the most important of which is that a judge was sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption and a fine of 300,000 Saudi riyals. The governor of one of the provinces was also sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 25,000 Saudi riyals on charges of corruption.
The Sindh Human Rights Organization added: “It seems that due to the lack of transparency and the spread of corruption in the judiciary, judicial rulings issued by the courts are accompanied by many doubts about their fairness.”
Human rights reports continue to condemn the Saudi judiciary, which lacks transparency and explicit bias in favor of Saudi officials in the detainees ‘cases, raising concerns about the fate of the convicts’ cases.
