Recruitment tied to address registration

July 29, 2013

Jeddah, Jul 29: Firms applying for recruitment visas should have their addresses registered with the Saudi Post on or before Sept. 7 in order to get their applications accepted by the Labor Ministry, it was announced yesterday.

“The acceptance of applications for recruitment will depend on whether the firm has registered or activated the national postal service,” said Labor Minister Adel Fakeih.

He said access to all other services of the ministry would also be linked with postal service activation, beginning Jan. 2. “This measure will also be linked with the Nitaqat system,” he added.

Fakeih’s statement follows an agreement signed by his ministry with Saudi Post to renew and upgrade the addresses of private firms and ensure their correctness.

The minister said the postal address would help labor inspectors locate a firm quickly and give it summons in case of a labor dispute. “It will also support the ongoing labor correction process,” he added.

Prevention of illegal visa business is another objective of the measure, said Fakeih. “There were instances when a firm would open an office to apply for recruitment visas. After obtaining visas the office is closed. Then another party opens the same office to apply for visas.”

The introduction of the new postal system would enable the ministry to find out recruitment applications received from an office and how the visas were used.

The new measure was taken on the basis of a Cabinet decision, Fakeih said, urging all firms to register or activate their national postal service with the Saudi Post before the deadline.

Last June, the Cabinet passed a decision instructing individuals and companies in the Kingdom to register their local addresses with the Civil Affairs Department or Saudi Post.

Mohammed Benten, president of Saudi Post, said the postal address would be included in the IDs of Saudis and expats.

“The move is aimed at facilitating government actions that require a quick response.”

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UN condemns Israeli regime’s ‘organized torture’ against Palestinians

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November 30,2025

The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of “organized torture” against Palestinians.

In a report published on Friday, CAT stated that the occupying regime enforces a deliberate policy of “organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” against Palestinian abductees, particularly since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.

The committee expressed “deep concern over repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, water-boarding, use of prolonged stress positions [and] sexual violence” inflicted on Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners were degraded by “being made to act like animals or being urinated on,” systematically denied medical care, and subjected to excessive restraints, “in some cases resulting in amputation,” the report added.

CAT also condemned the routine application of “unlawful combatants law” to justify the prolonged detention without trial of thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children.

More than 10,000 Palestinians, including women and children, are currently held in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian and international human rights groups, with 3,474 Palestinians in “administrative detention,” meaning they are imprisoned without trial for indefinite periods.

The report highlighted the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand,” noting that while Israel sets the age of criminal responsibility at 12, even younger children have been abducted.

Children designated as security prisoners face severe restrictions on family contact, may be subjected to solitary confinement, and are denied access to education, in clear violation of international law.

The committee further suggested that Israel’s policies across the Occupied Territories constitute collective torture against the Palestinian population.

“A range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population,” the report said.

On Thursday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the systematic killing and torture of Palestinian abductees in Israeli prisons, urging international action to halt these abuses.

Citing human rights data, Hamas stated that 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli prisons since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“This reflects an organized criminal approach that has turned these prisons into direct killing grounds to eliminate our people,” the resistance movement said.

Hamas called on the international community, the UN, and human rights organizations to immediately pressure Israel to end crimes against prisoners and uphold their rights as guaranteed by all international conventions and norms.

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