"In Saudi Arabia, which has no written penal code, judges and prosecutors have wide latitude to arbitrarily define certain acts as criminal behavior and then argue that defendants committed these “crimes.” The charges against al-Huwaider and al-Oyouni include “inciting a woman to flee with her children” and “attempting to turn a woman against her husband.” The charges under which the judge convicted Al-Huwaider and al-Oyouni violate the right to freedom of movement, which Saudi Arabia pledged to uphold in 2009 when it acceded to the Arab Charter on Human Rights. Article 27 of the charter states that “[n]o one may be arbitrarily or unlawfully prevented from leaving any country, including his own, nor prohibited from residing, or compelled to reside, in any part of that country.”"
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:24:44 +0000
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