Saudi lawyer uses UN law to argue beating death case
Thursday 12 June 2008
Al-Lahem Files Second Appeal in Huraisi Murder Case
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
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JEDDAH, 12 June 2008 — The lawyer for family members of a man they say was beaten to death in custody of the religious police in May 2007 in Riyadh filed a second appeal yesterday in the Riyadh Court of Appeals.
The lawyer, Abdul Rahman Al-Lahem, said the judges must consider whether the actions of two members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice constituted a violation of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which the Kingdom voluntarily signed in 1997.
“The case must be legally handled and looked at from that angle,” said Al-Lahem. “It’s an obvious case of torture that led to death.”