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Khaleej Times - Dubai,United A
24 June 2007
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Trial of Saudi anti-vice polic
RIYADH - The trial of four members of Saudi Arabia’s religious police over the death a man in their custody has been postponed to an unknown date, a relative of the victim said.
The officers from the powerful Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice or the Muttawa are accused of responsibility for the death of Ahmed Al Bulawi in May.
The trial was adjourned on Saturday because Bulawi’s family failed to file all the required legal documents with the court, the relative told AFP.
Bulawi, 50, died while being held for questioning in one of the Muttawa’s offices in the northeastern city of Tabuk for allegedly associating with a woman who was not a relative.
A senior member of the 5000-strong Muttawa, which enforces a strict Islamic code in the ultra-conservative kingdom, has told local media that Bulawi had not broken any of Saudi Arabia’s segregation laws.
The Muttawa have also faced investigation in the Mecca region after an Asian woman fell to her death from the fourth floor of a building that was stormed by religious police last month.
Local media have reported growing widespread frustration over the Muttawa’s actions, with attacks on officers by members of the public on the rise and a decision by the kingdom’s consultative body to block a recommendation to increase government funding to the vice police.
A landmark civil case against the Muttawa was adjourned on May 13 to July after none of its officers showed up in court, the woman plaintiff’s lawyer said.
The woman was seeking compensation after she and her daughter were allegedly wrongfully arrested in a shopping centre car park in 2004 for “not wearing decent clothing,” her lawyer told AFP.
Women in Saudi Arabia must be covered from head to toe when they go out in public.
The Muttawa also reportedly once arrested more than 200 workers from Bangladesh and Myanmar as they celebrated St Valentine’s Day outside the holy city of Mecca, where the traditional event for lovers is banned by fatwa or Muslim edict.
The interior ministry issued a May 2006 decree aimed at reining in the Muttawa by requiring them not to interrogate detained suspects but to hand them over to the regular police instead.
But Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said on Wednesday he believed the Muttawa should play a wider role in the ultra-conservative society.
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