Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "قانون سعودي" in Arabic language version.
In May 2004, ... a son of Interior Minister Prince Naif, who had been found guilty of killing a 15-year-old boy after an "argument", was saved from beheading [by a pardon] the father of his victim ... a transparent attempt to demonstrate that the Al-Saud would apparently be willing to let one of their own face the consequences of his criminal activity. It is difficult to believe that the father of the murdered boy would have been able to live a free and fulfilling life had he not pardoned Fahd at the last minute. The only thing that was remarkable about the whole charade was that Fahd had been charged at all. ... just as it was beginning to seem like justice might be seen to be done in a case involving a member of the royal family for the first time in the history of the kingdom, the episode -- as with the Fahd beheading charade -- culminated in an anticlimax: Orders came through to editors in chief from the Ministry of Information that nothing more about the subject was to be printed. So the matter was closed, and all four of the princes got of scot-free.
Saudi authorities often protest that the Labor Law offers comprehensive protection against ... abuses, but as in so many other ways, the difference between rhetoric and reality is vast. For example, 160 Egyptian and Asian employees went on strike at a factory in Jeddah in 2002. They had the law of the land on their side, and the Labor Office ruled in their favor. However, six months after their industrial action began -- undertaken in protest of the company's failure to pay outstanding salaries totaling millions of riyals -- their plight was still far from being resolved. They then launched a last-ditch appeals to the Court of Cassation because their salaries had not been paid for seven months. Many of their residence permits, or iqama, which all foreigners in Saudi Arabia are required to carry about their person at all times or risk arrest and imprisonment, had in the meantime expired, meaning they had now become illegal "overstayers". The experience of being in such legal limbo was already familiar to many of their colleagues ...
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: الأرشيف كعنوان (link){{استشهاد بدورية محكمة}}: الاستشهاد بدورية محكمة يطلب |دورية محكمة= (مساعدة){{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link){{استشهاد بدورية محكمة}}: الاستشهاد بدورية محكمة يطلب |دورية محكمة= (مساعدة)At least 15 other Saudi figures arrested in the same roundup that caught up the three imams last year are also being tried in nonpublic cases at the Specialized Criminal Court, which hears national security and terrorism cases.
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: أسماء عددية: قائمة المؤلفين (link)In May 2004, ... a son of Interior Minister Prince Naif, who had been found guilty of killing a 15-year-old boy after an "argument", was saved from beheading [by a pardon] the father of his victim ... a transparent attempt to demonstrate that the Al-Saud would apparently be willing to let one of their own face the consequences of his criminal activity. It is difficult to believe that the father of the murdered boy would have been able to live a free and fulfilling life had he not pardoned Fahd at the last minute. The only thing that was remarkable about the whole charade was that Fahd had been charged at all. ... just as it was beginning to seem like justice might be seen to be done in a case involving a member of the royal family for the first time in the history of the kingdom, the episode -- as with the Fahd beheading charade -- culminated in an anticlimax: Orders came through to editors in chief from the Ministry of Information that nothing more about the subject was to be printed. So the matter was closed, and all four of the princes got of scot-free.
Saudi authorities often protest that the Labor Law offers comprehensive protection against ... abuses, but as in so many other ways, the difference between rhetoric and reality is vast. For example, 160 Egyptian and Asian employees went on strike at a factory in Jeddah in 2002. They had the law of the land on their side, and the Labor Office ruled in their favor. However, six months after their industrial action began -- undertaken in protest of the company's failure to pay outstanding salaries totaling millions of riyals -- their plight was still far from being resolved. They then launched a last-ditch appeals to the Court of Cassation because their salaries had not been paid for seven months. Many of their residence permits, or iqama, which all foreigners in Saudi Arabia are required to carry about their person at all times or risk arrest and imprisonment, had in the meantime expired, meaning they had now become illegal "overstayers". The experience of being in such legal limbo was already familiar to many of their colleagues ...
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: الأرشيف كعنوان (link){{استشهاد}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: علامات ترقيم زائدة (link)At least 15 other Saudi figures arrested in the same roundup that caught up the three imams last year are also being tried in nonpublic cases at the Specialized Criminal Court, which hears national security and terrorism cases.