(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Saudi Interior Ministry said the number of Syrians held over security charges by the kingdom’s General Investigation Directorate has reached a total of 259, according to statement issued Tuesday.
The Syrian detainees occupy the second place in the list of foreigners behind the 358 Yemeni nationals. This came in an updated list of the number of detainees in Saudi prisons based on their involvement in security issues affecting state security, published on the Interior Ministry’s window for communications between the suspects and their relatives. Yemenis take the lead on the list with 358 prisoners, followed by Syrian with 259, then, Egyptian with 75, Pakistani with 73, and Jordanian with 10 detainees; while the number of Saudis was 2087, some of whom were sentenced and others under investigation.
The communication window, launched by the Saudi Ministry of the Interior years ago, aims to promote safe and continuous communication between the detainees and their families and to ensure that they are in good condition.
In addition to communication with the security authorities and officials in terms of coordination and submission of requests for services and receipt of notices and others. The family of the detainee can access the file of the detainee through the site to know the latest stages of the investigation of his case.
Activists had circulated on social networking sites a videotape of a Syrian girl who was staying with her 12 family members at al-Shmeissi prison in Mecca. "We have spent a year in detention in al-Shmeissi.
My family and I are 12 people, my father has lived for 40 years in this country, and we are living in its welfare and generosity," the girl said in the tape.
The video showed the girl and behind her three other women and another girl, as a woman cried and called on the king and the crown prince to release them from prison.
According to activists, the Saudi authorities detained the family because of the expiration of the residence of the father and children, and their inability to renew it because of rising costs.
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