From CDHR
June 22, 2007
Arrest and Death
By Ali Alyami
A family driver, “50-year-old Ahmed ibn Mussalam Al-Bulawi”, was spotted driving a woman by the Saudi religious police in early June; consequently, the man was arrested and taken to one of the religious police interrogation centers where he died. According to Saudi laws, women are prohibited from driving or riding with non-relative males even if she is being driven to an emergency room. In this case, the driver happened to be employed by the family to drive women, since they are denied the right to drive. Like other deadly incidents in this special mailing, an investigation is being ordered and like previous occasions, it’s more likely than not that the result would remain unknown or a statement by the government would be issued to say the proper actions against the perpetrators have been taken. In rare occasions the religious agents are tried by religious judge s who endorse the religious police’s actions in the first place.