Municipality ends ‘shawarma row’

June 30, 2014

Riyadh, Jun 30: The Riyadh Municipality clarified the image of the three workers preparing a large quantity of shawarma (grilled chicken meat on large vertical skewers) in unsanitary conditions is that of a restaurant in Turkey and not in the Kingdom.

The image went viral on social media networks raising a lot of concern about the hygiene and sanitation levels in the Kingdom.

The questions however can now be laid to rest following a long investigation by officials from the municipality who identified that the picture was taken in a Turkish restaurant in Turkey and that it had done the rounds of social network sites earlier.

The General Director of the Environmental Health Department in Riyadh, Mohamed Moaamn, confirmed that the captured image is of three workers in a famous restaurant in Turkey, and also confirmed that the picture had previously appeared on Turkish websites.

Moaamn expressed his appreciation toward the residents of the capital for alerting the municipality and reporting the three workers through the emergency hotline number 940.

The Riyadh Municipality had earlier called on all citizens and residents to cooperate with them and to report any information before receiving the picture about three workers preparing shawarma in unhygienic conditions at a restaurant.

The efforts to investigate and confirm the issue represents the municipality’s keenness, as per the instructions of the Mayor of Riyadh Region, Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al-Mokebel, to provide a safe, healthy environment for the customers in the capital and to seriously address any violation of the health regulations.

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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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