Saudi Arabia: Jawazat denies link to viral video clip

December 5, 2015

Riyadh, Dec 5: Major Talal Al-Shalhoob, spokesman of the directorate general of Jawazat, has said a video clip has gone viral on social media about a person in civilian dress talking to an Arab expatriate and threatening him by “giving him a final exit.” There is also a comment on the clip relating to Jawazat.

He said that after analysis of the video clip, it was found that it has no relation to any of the departments or employees of Jawazat. He also said that employees of the directorate general of Jawazat, in its customer service department, do not wear civilian dress

except at the airport.

Al-Shalhoob said that Jawazat gives all its services electronically through two services “Abshir and Muqeem.” All works related to it are processed electronically as per the requirements of beneficiaries without any Jawazat employee of Jawazat involved in the decision. There is no requirement for visiting the directorate personally, as the service is available electronically.

He said that the service the expatriate talked about in the video clip was not provided by Jawazat. Al-Shalhoob has urged people to not to spread incorrect and unconfirmed information and rumors.

He said that the directorate will follow up on all concerned departments to find the original source of the video clip which has gone viral. The culprit will be held accountable for relating it to people of Jawazat by taking legal action under the anti-information technology crime act and related laws.

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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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