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27-04-2020
By SJA Jafri
RIYADH/ ISLAMABAD/ MELBOURNE: It is just the result of continuous unbiased reporting of Press Media of India (PMI) and because of true journalistic efforts of this media outlet which are consisted on many decades, at last, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) would have to change many wrong doings, illegal, unethical, un-Islamic and anti-religious-cum-traditional and inhuman practices (like driving permission to women, male and female stay in hotel’s room, women’s right of selling and purchasing (shopping) independently, travelling nationwide as well as abroad without male, ban of blogging and now end of execution minors), those were not only continued since a long but also have been continuing and enforcing across the country and there was only PMI that was played its unusual role through true journalism and beside of receiving death-warrants, severe threats, bans, hurdles even kidnapping, jailing, enforced disappearing, torturing, sentencing, and direct beheading pressures for its staff and ‘sources’ particularly against ‘this correspondent’ (SJA Jafri) and despite many 
other “hidden and secret operations”, neither the PMI considered anyone especially Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) nor stopped its reporting against all former and present ‘Yazeeds’ counting MBS, their followers, facilitators, companions, supporters and financers, millions of Pakistani, Indian, Arab, American, African, Asian, Australian and European Muslims admitting this fact but not accepting heartily and honestly because of some reasons, mare-looking causes and fears but along with all these details, information and facts, the victims and sources further confirmed and claimed that if the PMI continues its coverage in future, not only the KSA but all other countries would have to turn their practices soon or after a short period of time, they more maintain that PMI along with Pakistani Messenger and National (media groups) has already been changed almost 70 percent world standards chiefly Australian, American and European immigration policies while the remaining will definitely turn into specific track as highlighted by reports.
According to latest development in KSA the KSA will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while a still minor, the country’s Human Rights Commission says.
The announcement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, comes two days after the country said it would ban flogging.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – which Riyadh has signed – says capital punishment should not be used for offences carried out by minors.
Activists say Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s worst human rights records.
They say freedom of expression is severely curtailed and critics of the government are subject to what they say is arbitrary arrest.
A record 184 people were executed in the kingdom in 2019, according to human rights group Amnesty International. At least one case involved a man convicted of a crime committed when he as a minor, the rights group has reported.
In a statement published on Sunday, Awwad Alawwad, president of the state-backed commission, said a royal decree had replaced executions in cases where crimes were committed by minors with a maximum penalty of 10 years in a juvenile detention centre.
“The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code,” Mr Alawwad said.
It was unclear when the decision – which was not immediately carried on state media – would come into effect.
The kingdom’s human rights record has remained under intense scrutiny, despite recent changes, following the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, while many civil rights and women’s rights activists remain in prison.
Earlier this week, the most prominent Saudi human rights campaigner died in jail after a stroke which fellow activists say was due to medical neglect by the authorities.
