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founding-steps · amnesty-2020-muzzling-critical-voices
- Claim ID
- founding-steps
- Assertion
- On October 28, 2008 the authorities announced that the Supreme Judicial Council had converted a special state-security section of the General Court in Riyadh into the SCC; the Minister of Justice issued an unpublished decree establishing the SCC on January 29, 2009, with no provision for appeals; an April 2011 decree created the SCC Appeal Court.
- Quote
In their first public reference to the SCC on 28 October 2008, the authorities announced that the Supreme Judicial Council had decided to convert a special section of the General Court in Riyadh responsible for trying state security-related cases into a special anti-terrorism court, to be known as the SCC ... The Minister of Justice issued a decree establishing the SCC on 29 January 2009, but has never made it public. The decree made no provision for appeals against SCC verdicts. In April 2011, the Minister of Justice issued a decree establishing the SCC Appeal Court.
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- en
- Locator
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