KSA rebuts charges against its judiciary

Saudi Gazette report GENEVA — Saudi Arabia on Thursday reiterated its keenness in safeguarding human rights and rejected unfounded allegations raised in some quarters against the Kingdom’s judiciary. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) session in Geneva, Faisal Trad, Saudi Ambassador to UN, said that the Kingdom, a founding member of the United Nations and HRC of which it has been a member for the past nine years, is keen on protecting and promoting human rights in accordance with the tolerant Islamic Shariah. “Therefore, any insinuating reference to partiality or unfairness of the judiciary system or its capital punishment provision is totally rejected and unacceptable,” he said while calling on all in HRC to respect the choices of the Saudi society, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Trad stated that the Kingdom has used its right to reply in HRC with reference to the remarks made by the Dutch and Danish delegations related to human rights and their promotion, as well as to the death penalty. With regard to the allegations of the Syrian representative, Trad said that the world has seen over the past five years the repetition of the same allegations and fabrications of a regime, and that the international community has almost unanimously agreed on its illegitimacy. He stressed that any fair-minded person briefed on the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria will be horrified of the sheer size of crimes against humanity the regime and its associates have committed against the Syrian people. “The Kingdom has made every effort in support of a political solution regarding the Syrian issue, but we will not wait forever: The killing of over 300,000 people and the displacement of more than 10 million people is more than enough,” he said while pointing out that the suffering of the Syrian people has to end by peace or force.