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MADINA – A 40-year-old woman, dubbed by the media as the “Madina Shark” because she was convicted of fraud in connection with a SR16 million investment scheme, has hired a second lawyer to help her get a reduction of her sentence.

The woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes for illegally collecting money from worshippers and workers at the Prophets Mosque and investing it on the stock exchange. When the stock market collapsed and she could no longer pay profits to her customers, the police was called in. Her current lawyer, Khaled Riyadh, had initially been able to get her sentence reduced. She was originally sentenced to 20 years in jail.

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AL-QATEEF – The Human Rights Commission in the Eastern Province is investigating the case of seven Saudi employees who were fired by a company that rents petroleum machinery.

The men said they are facing serious hardships because the termination decisions were unfair and it will take a long time to address the matter.

The men said they were on vacations as permitted by the regulations, but parts of their vacations were counted as absence from work.

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JEDDAH – The lawyer representing a 40-year-old Saudi woman surgeon has demanded that the Court of Appeals annul a verdict by a Madina general court judge who rejected her lawsuit that accused her father of blocking her marriage.

The womans father has allegedly refused to approve his daughters marriage because he takes her SR20,000 monthly salary and gives her SR300 for monthly expenses, according to Ahmad Bin Khaled Al-Sudairi, a well-known lawyer representing the woman, who has never been married.

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JEDDAH: Suleiman Al-Jumaie, the lawyer of sex braggart Mazen Abdul Al-Jawad who is now serving a five-year prison term with lashes for publicly talking on LBC about his sex exploits last year, said on Saturday that Mazens release from the jail could happen any time under a prison amnesty that could be issued by Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation.

“The pardon is extended to those who completed one fourth of their total jail punishment and my client will complete it in three months. However we will continue our fight against the LBC channel,” the lawyer said.

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MADINA – The District Court in Madina commuted the conviction of a 40-year-old woman fraudster by five years. She was earlier sentenced to 20 years and 1,500 lashes of the whip.

The latest decision was issued after Khaled Riyadh, a legal consultant and the womans lawyer, presented a 15-page document with 11 reasons for his objection to the initial ruling.

Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned from informed sources that the District Court has referred the case to the Court of Cassation in Makkah for final attestation of the new verdict.

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JEDDAH – The Court of Appeal has rejected the death penalty issued by the Jeddah General Court for a young man who, in a state of inebriation, ran a red light and caused an accident that killed Muhammad Al-Haddad, a student of King Abdulaziz University.
Ruling on an appeal filed by the culprit, the Court of Appeal held that the sentence was too harsh. It requested the General Court to reduce the sentence to be compatible with the crime committed.
Khaid Al-Haddad, the father of the slain boy, said Tuesday the Court of Appeal has asked the General Court to prepare the required legal documents pertaining to the hearing of the witnesses and the police officials who were present at the time of the accident. A hearing on the case will take place after Eid Al-Fitr to review these documents, judicial sources said.
Meanwhile, the father of the slain boy has decided to wave the execution request on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. He would instead call for a legislative settlement between the parties that would exclude the death punishment.
The accident happened two years ago when the culprit was driving his car at high speed on Palestine Street while under the influence of alcohol. The driver ran through several traffic signals before ramming his car into the parked car of the victim, killing the young man on the spot.
The original court verdict asked the culprit to pay compensation to the family of the deceased. He was also sentenced to receive 80 lashes as punishment for drinking alcohol. But, the High Court rejected this ruling and returned the case to a legislative committee to be reviewed again following a request from the victim’s father to apply the death penalty.
The culprit’s lawyer had presented an appeal to the court objecting to capital punishment and insisting that the accident was an act of fate, and that his client did not intend to kill the young man, holding on to the previous verdict that his client should only pay money to the victim’s family. – Okaz/SG

DAMMAM – Dr. James Leslie Braun, the Canadian teacher recruited to teach English language at King Faisal University in Al-Hasa, continues his battle for the resolution of his “wrongful termination” case currently pending at the labor high court in Riyadh.

His case was again postponed for the fourth time by the court. This time the case was deferred for six months. During the last three hearings, the case was postponed for three months after each hearing.

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RAFHAA – A Saudi student in Jordan has been forced to cut short his studies after being robbed at knife and sword-point near a service station on the Amman to Al-Qariyat road and then threatened when he took the case to court. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and two companions were accosted by two persons and forced to accompany them to a nearby house where they were robbed of money, mobile telephones and other property. According to Al-Ghamdi, he immediately reported the incident to the Saudi Embassy in Amman and lodged a complaint with police, but when the case went to court he found himself confronted by seven persons who, he said, threatened him if he pursued the case. “I was forced to abandon my studies and come back to Saudi Arabia,” he said. The embassy in Jordan has appointed a lawyer to pursue Al-Ghamdis case. – Okaz/SG

RIYADH: Police are looking for four men in their 20s who stabbed a Saudi man in his 30s on Riyadhs Khalid bin Al-Waleed Street on Monday morning.

Eyewitnesses said that the young men who were in a Hyundai car forced the mans Toyota Hilux to stop near Sadhan Center, pulled him out of the car and stabbed him several times, Sabq online newspaper reported.

Another eyewitness claims to have heard a shotgun being fired. The victim, who is thought to be a lawyer, was rushed to hospital where his condition was said to be stable. It is thought the man was working on a case involving one of his attackers.

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JEDDAH: Saudi landlords are often prejudiced when it comes to renting out apartments and prefer expatriates over Saudis who have poor reputation in paying rent on time.

According to statistics from the Jeddah court, there are 7,000 pending cases at the court relating to Saudis failing to pay their rent. The problem is so huge that the Real Estate Committee at the Jeddah Chamber for Commerce and Industry (JCCI) has recommended setting up a payment system that would lead to banks taking rent amount from a persons salary each month.

“It is obvious that many landlords opt not to rent apartments to Saudis due to the problems associated with them. I refuse to rent apartments to Saudis. Its true that the majority create problems. They often refuse to pay their rent,” said Abdulghani Al-Sabbagh, a landlord and former member of the Real Estate Committee at the JCCI.

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