Amendment of the Code of Criminal Procedure: a turning point and a plan to reduce the manifestations of torture

Psychologist and social worker participate in a discussion about psychological and social abuse

The Council of Ministers, under the presidency of the guardian of the two holy mosques, approved the addition of a paragraph "3" in Article 71 of the Code of Criminal Procedure issued by Resolution No. 142 of the Council of Ministers.

Thus, this amendment marks the beginning of the correction of this file. The investigator works in his specialty to interrogate the attacker and record his confession, and the specialists in their field after cases of harassment have become modern Saudis in the networks and exploited at the international level, have left the course of the humanitarian and judicial and family action amid the demands of specialists and those interested in the need to find clear laws The victim.

However, this amendment is not the first decision taken to develop and strengthen the judicial and criminal system in Saudi Arabia. At the present time, many regulations have been adopted which give the Public Prosecutor's Office full independence as a body to investigate criminal cases and cases of corruption and counterfeiting, as well as others based on the system. criminal procedure approved in 1436. Improve judicial and judicial facilities.

And recently approved regulations and instructions aimed at reducing manifestations of violence and non-domination of women have passed a law aimed at protecting abuses in 1434 H and define abuses as any form of exploitation or abuse. aggression or threat physical, psychological or sexual and have previously entrusted the task of the system to the social welfare of the Ministry of Social Affairs "And social affairs".

The State supported the prosecution, the Commission of Inquiry and the criminal prosecution, after its separation from the interior, its examination by the king and its treatment by judicial force and systematic, in which many cases have entrusted. Departments of corruption have been created and have been the subject of a recent investigation.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has also acted within the scope of its powers to combat harassment and activate the regulations that restrict it, and has entered into a permanent coordination agreement with the Ministry of Labor and Social Development to combat domestic violence and to activate the social protection system by supporting the establishment of criminal reconciliation units in family law cases and juvenile cases, as well as prosecutors and minors. And its departments in the Kingdom and the coordination between these units as a public prosecutor have created specialized departments in family matters.

The amendment approved by the Council of Ministers today under the chairmanship of the king, the presence of a psychologist or a social turning point in direct issues such as that has become controversial and a renewed question, which runs from time to time and which concerns concerned parties, despite the fact that Saudi Arabia made leaps and decisions in favor of women, Without the consent of the guardian and the signing of surgeries without the consent of the guardian.

The presence of a psychologist or social worker to discuss the dimensions of the issue of social harassment and social aspects, the search for the family environment and the extent of the stability and non-disintegration, as well as the presence of a psychologist constitutes the diagnosis of the case of the aggressor psychologically and guarantees the safety of any psychological symptom because of the impact on the unfolding of the victim as well as the fate of the victim. Which could threaten his life.

Latifa Hamid, a social scientist, said, "Domestic violence is a thorny issue and the ramifications have created a number of problems and problems, and they need to combine many efforts to address them in order to give birth to new generation educated and rid of these mental handicaps. "

"The decision of the Supreme Council of Ministers to include the social worker to hear the accused in cases of violence is a wise decision and a wise opinion, because the presence of a social worker at the time of Hearing statements plays an important role in discovering motivations as well as obscure reasons and facts due to one's specialization in the areas of the individual and the family. "