Who’s Who: Zuhair Al-Zouman, member of the Public Prosecution

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Updated 19 November 2022
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Who’s Who: Zuhair Al-Zouman, member of the Public Prosecution

Zuhair Al-Zouman has been a member of the Public Prosecution since 1996 and is currently at appellant ranking.

He worked in the investigation departments and oversight of prisons and detention centers, and since 2003 worked at the research and studies center.

He has also been a member of the Human Rights Commission since 2016.

Al-Zouman gained a bachelor’s degree in law from King Saud University, Riyadh in 1995, and a diploma in criminal law from the Institute of Public Administration in 1997.

Since 2016 he has been president of the the Human Rights Commission’s standing committee on responses and vice president of the standing committee for reporting.

He represented the Public Prosecution at the meeting of heads of research and studies centers in public prosecutions in Arab countries at the Arab Center for Legal and Judicial Research of the League of Arab States.

Al-Zouman taught judicial systems — the system of criminal procedures, the system of legal pleadings, the legal system — in the training city of the Public Security in Riyadh for a full semester in 2009.

He trained officers in the Public Security Training City according to the Criminal Procedures Law 2010.

In 2013, he was a member of the Kingdom’s delegation in Geneva to present a comprehensive report on human rights.

He was also a member of the Kingdom’s delegation in Vienna in 2014 to participate in the 7th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.


Saudi, Pakistan defense chiefs discuss ‘measures needed to halt’ Iranian attacks on Kingdom

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Saudi, Pakistan defense chiefs discuss ‘measures needed to halt’ Iranian attacks on Kingdom

RIYADH: Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Pakistan’s  Chief of Defense Forces Asim Munir discussed Iran’s attacks on the Kingdom, amid the escalating military conflict in the Middle East. 

“We discussed Iranian attacks on the Kingdom and the measures needed to halt them within the framework of our Joint Strategic Defense Agreement,” Prince Khalid wrote on social media early on Saturday.

“We stressed that such actions undermine regional security and stability and expressed hope that the Iranian side will exercise wisdom and avoid miscalculation.”

The US and Israel began a large-scale military campaign against Iran on Feb. 28. Iran has since attacked a number of sites across the Gulf.

Tehran has also attacked US and Israeli military assets as the war as escalated, impacting lives in the peaceful Arabian Gulf peninsula and risked shaking the global economy as Iran continued restricting energy shipping along the Strait of Hormuz.

The Saudi Defense Ministry said a number of drones had been shot down that were targeting the Shayba oil field in the Empty Quarter on Saturday.

A drone attacked the US embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday causing a minor fire, but no one was hurt in the incident.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a “Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement”  in September, pledging that aggression against one country would be treated as an attack on both.

Separately, Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif, the Saudi interior minister, received a call from his Pakistani counterpart Raza Naqvi, who condemned the blatant attacks targeting the Kingdom and affirmed his country’s solidarity in confronting any threats to the Kingdom’s security and stability, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.